Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 13:14

14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave : I will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy plagues , O grave, I will be thy destruction ; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes .

Iehovah or Messiah, the Father promiseth the Messiah.

By power and purchase, by the price of the blood of the Lamb of God, and by the power of his Godhead.

That repent and believe, and wait for Redemption through Christ the Messiah.

He conquered the grave, and rose out of it as our Captain and Head, and he will at the great day of the Resurrection by his Almighty power open those Prison doors, and bring them out in glory, immortality and incorruption, whom he Redeemed by an inestimable and invaluable price.

From the curse of the first death, henceforth they that dye in the Lord shall be blessed, and from the second death which shall have no power over them; I will take away the sting of death which is sin, i. e. in dominion and guilt of it; now Christ redeems from the one by sanctifying Grace, and from the other by justifying Grace.

Thus I will destroy death, and defeat him that had the power of death, it is a Metaphor as the next.

I will recover the prey out of the mouth of the Grave, I'le pull down those prison Walls and bring out all that are confined there, of which the bad I will remove into other kind of Prisons, the good I will restore to glorious liberty. The wicked shall have a worse Prison, the godly shall for ever be freed from prison, and so I will raze this Prison the grave to the very foundation.

This Grace toward the godly toward believers among Israel, and in the Church, through all ages is unchangeable, I will never, as man that repenteth, change my word, and purpose saith the Lord. In either sense they speak the Grace of God toward us, he is ready to pardon and save all that will repent, and he will most certainly and eternally save from death, grave, sin, and Hell, all that do repent and obey the Messiah, an abundant comfort to pious ones who should yet die Captives in Assria, but rise by the power of the Messiah to eternal glory in the day of the general Resurrection.

Some Interpreters render this Text not in the future absolute, but in the subjunctive and conditionally, I would have ransomed, I would have redeemed, &c. if Israel had been wise, so 'twill well cohere with the 13th. and 15th. verses. And if the words be considered as spoken of the whole body of Israel, they will be most intelligible as they include a condition and are subjunctive. But the Apostle doth and most Christian interpreters with the Apostle interpret them as an absolute promise made for the comfort of the pious and elect among these Israelites, and labour not to connect them with the foregoing or following words, but suppose them to be in a Parenthesis between them. And so we take them.

Marginal references: Isa. 25.8.; Heb. the hand.; 1 Cor. 15.[illegible: 1 letter]4, 55.