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Easton's Bible Dictionary
Hosea, Prophecies of
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 )."
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These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.
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.