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Hosea, Prophecies of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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The second part, containing 4-14, is a summary of Hosea's discourses, filled with denunciations, threatenings, exhortations, promises, and revelations of mercy.

Quotations from Hosea are found in Matthew 2:15; 9:15; 12:7; Romans 9:25,26 . There are, in addition, various allusions to it in other places (Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:16 , Compare Hosea 10:8; Romans 9:25,26; 1 Peter 2:10 , Compare Hosea 1:10 , etc.).

As regards the style of this writer, it has been said that "each verse forms a whole for itself, like one heavy toll in a funeral knell." "Inversions (7:8; 9:11,13; 12:: 8), anacolutha (9:6; 12:8, etc.), ellipses (9:4; 13:9, etc.), paranomasias, and plays upon words, are very characteristic of (Hosea 8:7; 9:15; 10:5; 11:5; 12:11 )."

Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Hosea, Prophecies of'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ebd/​h/hosea-prophecies-of.html. 1897.
 
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