Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 11:10

10 They shall walk after the LORD : he shall roare like a lion : when he shall roare, then the children shall tremble from the west .

Whom infinite mercy spareth, the choice remnant

shall hear and obey, worship and depend on the Lord, on the Messiah, of whom these, and the words of the next verse do certainly speak. They refer also to the return out of Captivity, in both History and Type, of our deliverance out of Spiritual and Eternal Captivity.

Christ the Lyon, of the Tribe of Iudah, shall send out his Gospel, this meant by the Lyons roring, Ioel 3.16. of whom 'tis observed, that he doth by roring gather his Whelps, and others of his kind to the prey; by the mighty voice of the Lord in the Gospel, the Elect shall be gathered to partake of Eternal Life;

The spirit by its power awakening them to the sight of sin, shall make them fear and tremble,

to the ends of the earth. This is the mystical sense, yet the literal I think, refers to the return of the Iews out of Captivity, when many out of Assyria and Egypt returned, and some report 100000, from Ethiopia Cusaea, and the parts toward Arabia; and possibly this hath particular respect to Darius his decree, on the behalf of those that follow'd Haggai and Zechariah's counsel, finisht the Temple, restored the Worship of God, reformed strange and unlawful Marriages, paid their Tithes, &c. in these they followed the Lord; And Darius made a decree for them, terrible to the children of the West, as the roaring of a Lyon. Let this work go forward, Ezra 6.7. &c. who dares to hinder, let Timber be taken out of his house, and a Gallowes made thereof, and such be hanged thereon, ver. 11.12. All this filled the inhabitants of those parts with great fear, when God thus gathered his dispersed ones; but what I conjecture at I do submit to better Judgments.

Marginal references: Amos 1.[illegible: 1 letter].