John Trapp on Hosea 2:10

Verſe 10. And now will I diſcover her lewdneſſe,] Or her filthineſſe, baſeneſſe, fooliſhneſſe, ſapleſsneſſe; perhaps the ſame with her nakedneſſe, verſe 9. See the Note there. How ſhameleſſe the Heathen Idolaters were, the worſhippers of Priapus eſpecially (which Ierome and Iſidore ſay, was the ſame with Baal-peor, and made Maacha the mother of Aſa guilty of that villany) with their infamous Nos pudore pulſa, ſtamus ſub Jove coleis apertis, &c. is notoriouſly known; how they ran about naked in their Lupercalia, Bacchanalia and other beaſtly ſolemnities. God threatneth to make her naked here in another manner,Chaldeus reddit ignominiam, ut quam velatam deſiderabant, apertam contemnant Hieron. to her utter diſgrace and ignominy. He had threatned her before with poverty, now with ſcorn and contempt: theſe go ſeldome aſunder; but when ſelf-procured, they are very grievous. See Deut. 28. Fornicatours are fools, Ier. 29.23. Gen. 34.7. Shechem committed folly in Iſrael, and is therefore called a lad, or a childe, (ver. 19. Neque diſtulit puer) for his witleſſeneſſe, as being carried not by right reaſon, but blind affection. So Amnon was for this as one of the fools in Iſrael, 2 Sam. 13.12. a Nabal, a Nebulo, one that falls below the dignity of a man, below the ſtirrup of reaſon, flagitious and profligate.

Spirituall fornicatours are all this and more. They hunt after lying vanities, and ſo forſake their own mercies;Jonas 2.8. being ſingularly fooliſh (as the word here uſed importeth) and miſerable by their own election. The indignity and iniquity of their practiſe, ſee Ier. 2.9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Satan deals by them as he did by Adam, when he gave him an apple for Paradiſe; and ſet him to the tree of Knowledge, that he might not taſte the tree of life. And like unto them (ſaith a Lapide here) is every wicked perſon, who by Satans perſwaſion preferreth the creature before the Creatour, earth before heaven, the devil before God, hell before heaven, ſin before ſanctity, evil before good. Theſe are lewd perſons of ſordid and ſervile diſpoſitions, homines ad ſervitutem parati (as Tiberius ſaid of the Romans) men of an under-ſpirit, as thoſe, 1 Chron. 4.23. Hedge rogues Mr. Dyke calleth them.

In the ſight of her lovers] That her, whom they have ſo deſired whiles ſhe was veiled, they may deride when laid open. There can nothing befall a woman more grievous, then to be ſtript naked, but eſpecially before her ſweet-hearts, Lam. 3.8. All that honoured her, deſpiſe her, becauſe they have ſeen her nakedneſſe: yea ſhe ſigheth and turneth backward. It is the paint or the dreſſe many times, that makes the lewd woman lovely; Think the ſame of Idolatry: how pompous is it, and theatricall? but God will detect it and make it ridiculous every day more and more. Eraſmus was very inſtrumentall this way, and did prejudice Popery by his witty jearing, as much as Luther did by his ſtomacking and inveying, ſaith One. Though it cannot be denied,Capito. but that Pruriginoſa iſtorum hominum ſcabies aſperiori ſtrigali fricanda fuerat, Amama. Anibarb. Praefat. the ſcabby hides of thoſe Popelings called for a ſharper curry-comb, as another Learned man phraſeth it.

and none ſhall deliver her out of my hand] Not her idols, not her confederates. An idol is nothing in the world: and all Nations, ſet by God, are as a drop of a bucker, or duſt of a ballance: they can no more ſtand before him, then a glaſſe-bottle can before a cannon-ſhot.1 Cor. 8.4. Iſai. 40.15. It was bootleſſe therefore for this adultereſſe to hope for help from her lovers, when God once took her in hand. He would give her, her due, Ipſis ſpectantibus & ſtantibus inſtar ſtipitum, whiles they look on and ſtood like ſo many ſtocks, not daring to ſtir for her reſcue and relief. See for this, Rev. 18.10. with the Note.