Since these rough ways will not do, I will take another, a more mild and gentle way instead of threatening, terrifying, and punishing, I will allure, persuade, and entice, giving loving words and winning language: or "nevertheless", or "notwithstanding": so Noldius and others render the particle though they have thus behaved themselves, and such methods have been taken with them to no purpose, yet I will do as follows: the words may be understood of the call and conversion of the people of God, the spiritual Israel of God, both Jews and Gentiles, in the first times of the Gospel, as Hosea 2:23 is quoted and applied by the Apostle Paul, Romans 9:24 and be understood also of the call of the believing Jews out of Jerusalem, before the destruction of it, Luke 21:21, from whence they removed to Pella, as Eusebius relates: and of the apostles out of the land of Judea into the wilderness of the people, the Gentile world, to preach the Gospel there where vineyards or churches were planted the door of faith and hope, were opened to the Gentiles, that had been without hope and the conversions now made, both among Jews and Gentiles, opened a door of hope, or were a pledge of the conversion of the Jew, and the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles in the latter day to which times also these words may be applied, when the Jews shall be allured and persuaded to seek the Lord their God, and David their King, and join Gospel churches in the wilderness of the people, and shall have abundance of spiritual consolation and joy and they may also be applied to the conversion of sinners in common, and set forth the methods of God's grace in dealing with them: there is throughout an allusion to Israel's coming out of Egypt, from whence the Lord allured and persuaded them by Moses and Aaron and then brought them into the wilderness, where he fed and supplied them, and spoke comfort to them, and gave them the lively oracles and whence, from the borders of it, they had and entered into the vineyards in the land of Canaan and in the valley of Achor ate of the grain of the land, which was a door of hope to them they should enjoy the whole land and when they rejoiced exceedingly, particularly at the Red sea, at their first coming out. Israel, Prophecies Concerning Scofield Reference Index - Wife Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affliction, Consolation under ĭictionaries: - Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Quotations Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heart Marriage Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching Resignation Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ammi Canticles Hosea Wilderness of the Wanderings Holman Bible Dictionary - Famine and Drought Hosea Remnant Wilderness Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hosea, Book of Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved Sin Song of Songs Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Redemption (2) King James Dictionary - Allure Morrish Bible Dictionary - Husband The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Concubine Shur Įncyclopedias: - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Allure Bring Comfortably Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings) Hosea The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage Peace-Offering ĭevotionals: - Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 15 Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for July 18 Concordances: - Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities God Continued.
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