John Trapp on Hosea 14:7
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Hosea14:7
Verſe 7. They that dwell under his ſhadow ſhall return, Or, ſhall ſit ſtill, ſhall be at reſt. The Chaldee hath it, They ſhall dwell in the ſhadow of his Chriſt. See a like promiſe of refocillation and protection, Eſay 4.6. Eſ. 25.4. Pſal. 35.8. The refuge and refreſhment of the Church is whole from Chriſt: under the ſhadow of whoſe divine grace ſhhe reſteth in her members, ſhaded and ſheltred under the hollow of his hand, when the blaſt of the terrible ones is as a ſtorm againſt the wall, Eſay 25.4. when indignation is kindled (Eſay 26.20.) and when the Lord cometh out of his place to puniſh the inhabitants of the land for their iniquity: then ſhall true converts have a chamber of reſt, a Pella provided them: or, at leaſt be able to ſing Davids Requiem, Return to thy reſt, O my ſoul, hover and cover under Gods wing, run to his Name as a tower, and be ſafe. Why art thou caſt down,Prov. 18.10. truſt in God, truſt in an angry God, in a killing God, as Job, beleeve him upon his bare word, and that againſt ſenſe, in things inviſible; and againſt reaſon, in things incredible. This is Faiths triumph, and this is the Saints ſafety.
They ſhall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine,] The Seventy and Latine render it, They ſhall live with corn; that is, they ſhall have great plenty of all things neceſſary, as Pſal. 87. and 142.14. But the other reading is better; They ſhall revive as the corn, which ſuffering much from froſt, hail, ſnow, tempeſt, lieth for dead, as it were, in Winter; but at the return of the Sun in Springtide reviveth,Joh. 12.24. 1 Cor. 15. and yeeldeth a great increaſe. In like ſort, the Vine when pruned and lopped ſpreads again, and is the more fruitfull: So thoſe that are viti vitae inſerti, ſet into the true Vine, though lopped and harrowed with ſore and ſharp afflictions, yet can truly and triumphantly ſay, As dying, and behold we live, as chaſtened, and not killed, &c. Their bodies alſo by death are not ſo much rotted as refined,2 Cor. 4. and ſhall be conformed to Chriſts moſt glorious body the ſtandard, Phil. 3. ult.
and the ſent thereof as the wine of Lebanon.] which was noted for the beſt, as Kimchi proves, and Athenaeus confirmeth. Among the Jews at this day, the women when they ſpeak of their dead husbands, ſay, His ſcent, or his memoriall is as the wine of Lebanon.
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