John Trapp on Hosea 1:3

Verſe 3. So he went] He ſaid not,john 6.60. This is a hard ſaying, who can hear it? Dura mihi praecipit, & poene terret. He doth not reaſon but run, diſpute but diſpatch. God muſt be obeyed, though we ſee no ſenſe for it. And took Gomer] which ſignifieth both conſummation and conſumption, to ſhew that ſhe was conſummata meretrix, a compleat whore, had all the tricks of a whore; and brings her paramours to finall conſumption, utter extermination.

the daughter of Diblaim] Not quaſi de Belaim, a place ſo called, as Hugo dreameth: though there was a wilderneſſe of this name, whereto ſome think the Prophet here alludeth, to ſhew the Churches wretched beginning in its own nature: as Cant. 3:6. Ezek. 16.7. But Diblaim is by ſome taken for Gomers father: by more, for her mother, which is alſo held to be an harlot, according to that Ezek. 16.44. As is the mother, ſo is the daughter. Diblaim ſignifieth bunches of dried figs, that were the delicacies of thoſe times. Gluttony is the gallery that lechery walketh thorough. Sine Cerere & Libero friget Venus. Concupiſcence (as Plato ſaith) hath the loweſt places, and is alligata ventri, as one would tie an horſe or an aſſe to the manger.Jer. 5.8. Jeremy not unfitly compareth ſenſualiſts to fed horſes, neighing after their neighbours wives: Saturity breeds ſecurity, which is the ſure forerunner of deſtruction. Eſt ergo hic gnome, ſaith à Lapide. i. e. Here we have then an elegant ſentence, Gomer is the daughter of Diblaim, that is, rottenneſſe of ſenſuality: for as the worm that grows in the fruit, devoureth it; ſo doth grief, the pleaſure of ſin. This Obſervation we have from the Cabbaliſts.