Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 8:6
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Hosea8:6
6 For from Israel was it also, the workman made it , therefore it is not God : but the calf of Samaria, shall be broken in pieces .
Or because
by their invention and authority.
Both the Idol and the worship of it.
The Founder, Silversmith, or Goldsmith
fashion'd the Calf.
You are sottish fools to think 'tis a God, if the making it will not convince you 'tis no God, yet I hope the destroying it will prove what ere 'twas made for, or whatever thought to be, yet 'twas not, nor could it ever be a God.
But when the Idol is broken into pieces, Samaria shall see 'twas but a Calf, and confess their folly in Worshipping it, however the destruction of it will be a perpetual witness of Samaria's sin, and Gods just displeasure in its ruine.
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