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God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. . 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to repentance. 1. He had a kindness for them when they were young ( Hosea 11:1 ; Hosea 11:1 ): When Israel was a child then I loved him; when they first began to multiply into a nation in Egypt God then set his love upon them, and chose them because he loved them, because he would love them, Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 . When they were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, when they were outcasts, and children exposed, then God loved them; he pitied them, and testified his goodwill to them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners. Note, Those that have grown up, nay, those that have grown old, ought often to reflect upon the goodness of God to them in their childhood. 2. He delivered them out of the house of bondage: I called my son out of Egypt, because a son, because a beloved son. When God demanded Israel's discharge from Pharaoh he called them his son, his first-born. Note, Those whom God loves he calls out of the bondage of sin and Satan into the glorious liberty of his children. These words are said to have been fulfilled in Christ, when, upon the death of Herod, he and his parents were called out of Egypt ( Matthew 2:15 ), so that the words have a double aspect, speaking historically of the calling of Israel out of Egypt and prophetically of the bringing of Christ thence; and the former was a type of the latter, and a pledge and earnest of the many and great favours God had in reserve for that people, especially the sending of his Son into the world, and the bringing him again into the land of Israel when they had unkindly driven him out, and he might justly never have returned. The calling of Christ out of Egypt was a figure of the calling of all that are his, through him, out of spiritual slavery. 3. He gave them a good education, took care of them, took pains with them, not only as a father or tutor, but, such is the condescension of divine grace, as a mother or nurse ( Hosea 11:3 ; Hosea 11:3 ): I taught Ephraim also to go, as a child in leading-strings is taught. When they were in the wilderness God led them by the pillar of cloud and fire, showed them the way in which they should go, and bore them up, taking them by the arms. He taught them to go in the way of his commandments, by the institutions of the ceremonial law, which were as tutors and governors to that people under age. He took them by the arms, to guide them, that they might not stray, and to hold them up, that they might not stumble and fall. God's spiritual Israel are thus supported. Thou has holden me by my right hand, Psalms 73:23 . 4. When any thing was amiss with them, or they were ever so little out of order, he was their physician: " I healed them; I not only took a tender care of them (a friend may do that), but wrought an effectual cure: it is a God only that can do that. I am the Lord that healeth thee ( Exodus 15:26 ), that redresseth all thy grievances." 5. He brought them into his service by mild and gentle methods ( Hosea 11:4 ; Hosea 11:4 ): I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. Note, It is God's work to draw poor souls to himself; and none can come to him except he draw them, John 6:44 . He draws, (1.) With the cords of a man, with such cords as men draw with that have a principle of humanity, or such cords as men are drawn with; he dealt with them as men, in an equitable rational way, in an easy gentle way, with the cords of Adam. He dealt with them as with Adam in innocency, bringing them at once into a paradise, and into covenant with himself. (2.) With bands of love, or cartropes of love. This word signifies stronger cords than the former. He did not drive them by force into his service, whether they would or no, nor rule them with rigour, nor detain them by violence, but his attractives were all loving and endearing, all sweet and gentle, that he might overcome them with kindness. Moses, whom he made their guide, was the meekest man in the world. Kindnesses among men we commonly call obligations, or bonds, bonds of love. Thus God draws with the savour of his good ointments ( Song of Solomon 1:4 ), draws with lovingkindness, Jeremiah 31:3 . Thus God deals with us, and we must deal in like manner with those that are under our instruction and government, deal rationally and mildly with them. 6. He eased them of the burdens they had been long groaning under: I was to them as those that take off the yoke on their jaws, alluding to the care of the good husbandman, who is merciful to his beast, and will not tire him with hard and constant labour. Probably, in those times, the yoke on the neck of the oxen was fastened with some bridle, or headstall, over the jaws, which muzzled the mouth of the ox. Israel in Egypt were thus restrained from the enjoyments of their comforts and constrained to hard labour; but God eased them, removed their shoulder from the burden, Psalms 81:6 . Note, Liberty is a great mercy, especially out of bondage. 7. He supplied them with food convenient. In Egypt they fared hard, but, when God brought them out, he laid meat unto them, as the husbandman, when he has unyoked his cattle, fodders them. God rained manna about their camp, bread from heaven, angels' food; other creatures seek their meat, but God laid meat to his own people, as we do to our children, was himself their caterer and carver, anticipated them with the blessings of goodness. II. Here is Israel very ungrateful to God. 1. They were deaf and disobedient to his voice. He spoke to them by his messengers, Moses and his other prophets, called them from their sins, called them to himself, to their work and duty; but as they called them so they went from them; they rebelled in those particular instances wherein they were admonished; the more pressing and importunate the prophets were with them, to persuade them to that which was good, the more refractory they were, and the more resolute in their evil ways, disobeying for disobedience-sake. This foolishness is bound in the hearts of children, who, as soon as they are taught to go, will go from those that call them. 2. They were fond of idols, and worshipped them: They sacrificed to Baalim, first one Baal and then another, and burnt incense to graven images, though they were called to by the prophets of the Lord again and again not to do this abominable thing which he hated. Idolatry was the sin which from the beginning, and all along, had most easily beset them. 3. They were regardless of God, and of his favours to them: They knew not that I healed them. They looked only at Moses and Aaron, the instruments of their relief, and, when any thing was amiss, quarrelled with them, but looked not through them to God who employed them. Or, When God corrected them, and kept them under a severe discipline, they understood not that it was for their good, and that God thereby healed them, and it was necessary for the perfecting of their cure, else they would have been better reconciled to the methods God took. Note, Ignorance is at the bottom of ingratitude, Hosea 2:8 ; Hosea 2:8 . 4. They were strongly inclined to apostasy. This is the blackest article in the charge ( Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 11:7 ): My people are bent to backsliding from me. Every word here is aggravating. (1.) They backslide. There is no hold of them, no stedfastness in them; they seem to come forward, towards God, but they quickly slide back again, and are as a deceitful bow. (2.) They backslide from me, from God, the chief good, the fountain of life and living waters, from their God who never turned from them, nor war as a wilderness to them. (3.) They are bent to backslide; they are ready to sin; there is in their natures a propensity to that which is evil; at the best they hang in suspense between God and the world, so that a little thing serves to draw them the wrong way; they are forward to close with every temptation. It also intimates that they are resolute in sin; their hearts are fully set in them to do evil the bias is strong that way; and they persist in their backslidings, whatever is said or done to stop them; and yet, (4.) "They are, in profession, my people. They are called by my name, and profess relation to me; they are mine, whom I have done much for and expect much from, whom I have nourished and brought up, as children, and yet they backslide from me. " Note, In our repentance we ought to lament not only our backslidings, but our bent to backslide, not only our actual transgressions, but our original corruption, the sin that dwells in us, the carnal mind. 5. They were strangely averse to repentance and reformation. Here are two expressions of their obstinacy:-- (1.) They refused to return, Hosea 11:5 ; Hosea 11:5 . So much were they bent to backslide that, though they could not but find, upon trial, the folly of their backslidings, and that when they forsook God they changed for the worse, yet they went on frowardly. I have loved strangers, and after them I will go. They were commanded to return, were courted and entreated to return, were promised that if they would they should be kindly received, but they refused. (2.) Though they called them to the Most High. God's prophets and ministers called them to return to the God from whom they had revolted, to the most high God, from whom they had sunk into this wretched degeneracy; they called them from the worship of the idols, which were so much below them, and the worship of which was therefore their disparagement, to the true God, who was so much above them, and the worship of whom was therefore their preferment; they called them from this earth to high and heavenly things; but they called in vain. None at all would exalt him. Though he is the most high God they would not acknowledge him to be so, would do nothing to honour him nor give him the glory due to his name. Or, They would not exalt themselves, would not rise out of that state of apostasy and misery into which they had precipitated themselves; but there they contentedly lay still, would not lift up their heads nor lift up their souls. Note, God's faithful ministers have taken a great deal of pains, to no purpose, with backsliding children, have called them to the Most High; but none would stir, none at all would exalt him. III. Here is God very angry, and justly so, with Israel; see what are the tokens of God's displeasure with which they are here threatened. 1. God, who brought them out of Egypt, to take them for a people to himself, since they would not be faithful to him, shall bring them into a worse condition than he at first found them in ( Hosea 11:5 ; Hosea 11:5 ): " He shall not return into the land of Egypt, though that was a house of bondage grievous enough; but he shall go into a harder service, for the Assyrian shall be his king, who will use him worse than ever Pharaoh did." They shall not return into Egypt, which lies near, where they may hear often from their own country, and whence they may hope shortly to return to it again; but they shall be carried into Assyria, which lies much more remote, and where they shall be cut off from all correspondence with their own land and from all hopes of returning to it, and justly, because they refused to return. Note, Those that will not return to the duties they have left cannot expect to return to the comforts they have lost. 2. God, who gave them Canaan, that good land, and a very safe and comfortable settlement in it, shall bring his judgments upon them there, which shall make their habitation unsafe and uncomfortable ( Hosea 11:6 ; Hosea 11:6 ): The sword shall come upon them, the sword of war, the sword of a foreign enemy, prevailing against them and triumphing over them. (1.) This judgment shall spread far. The sword shall fasten upon their cities, those nests of people and store-houses of wealth; it shall likewise reach to their branches, the country villages (so some), the citizens themselves (so others), or the bars (so the word signifies) and gates of their city, or all the branches of their revenue and wealth, or their children, the branches of their families. (2.) It shall last long: It shall abide on their cities. David thought three months flying before his enemies was the only judgment of the three that was to be excepted against; but this sword shall abide much longer than three months on the cities of Israel. They continued their rebellions against God, and therefore God continued his judgments on them. (3.) It shall make a full end: It shall consume their branches, and devour them, and lay all waste, and this because of their own counsels, that is, because they would have their own projects, which God therefore, in a way of righteous judgment, gave them up to. Note, The confusion of sinners is owing to their contrivance. God's counsels would have saved them, but their own counsels ruined them. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-8-12" class="com-number"

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> 이스라엘이 어린아이였을 때에 내가 그를 사랑하였고, 내 아들을 이집트에서 불러내었다. 그러나 사람들이 그들을 부를수록 그들은 오히려 떠나갔다. 그들은 바알들에게 제사하고 새긴 우상들에게 향을 피웠다. 그런데도 내가 에브라임에게 걷는 법을 가르쳤고, 그들을 내 팔로 안아 주었다. 그러나 그들은 내가 자기들을 고쳐 준 줄을 알지 못하였다. 내가 사람의 줄, 곧 사랑의 끈으로 그들을 이끌었고, 그들의 목에서 멍에를 들어 올려 주는 자처럼 그들을 대하였으며, 몸을 굽혀 그들을 먹였다. 그들은 이집트 땅으로 돌아가지 못할 것이며, 도리어 앗시리아 사람이 그들의 왕이 될 것이다. 이는 그들이 회개하기를 거부하였기 때문이다. 칼이 그들의 성읍들 위에 떨어져 성문의 빗장을 부수고 그들의 계획을 끝장낼 것이다. 내 백성은 나를 떠나기로 작정하였다. 그들이 지극히 높으신 분께 부르짖을지라도 그분은 결코 그들을 높여 주지 않으실 것이다. (호 11:1-7)

**I. 하나님이 이스라엘을 향해 매우 은혜로우셨다.** 그들은 하늘 아래 어느 민족보다 하나님이 더 많이 행하시고 더 많이 주신 백성이었다.

1. 그들이 어릴 때 그분이 그들을 사랑하셨다(호 11:1). "이스라엘이 어린아이였을 때에 내가 그를 사랑하였다." 이집트에서 그들이 처음 나라로 번성하기 시작할 때 하나님은 그들에게 그분의 사랑을 두셨다(신 7:7-8). 주목하라. 성장한 이들, 심지어 늙은 이들도 어린 시절에 하나님이 그들에게 베풀어 주신 선하심을 자주 돌아보아야 한다.

2. 그분이 그들을 속박에서 건져 내셨다. "내 아들을 이집트에서 불러내었다." 하나님이 바로에게 이스라엘의 해방을 요구하실 때 그들을 그분의 아들, 그분의 맏아들이라 불렀다. 주목하라. 하나님이 사랑하시는 자들을 그분은 죄와 사탄의 속박에서 불러내어 그분의 자녀들의 영광스러운 자유로 이끄신다. 이 말씀들은 그리스도가 헤롯이 죽자 그와 그의 부모가 이집트에서 불려나올 때 성취된 것으로 이야기된다(마 2:15).

3. 그분이 그들에게 좋은 교육을 주셨다. "내가 에브라임에게 걷는 법을 가르쳤고, 그들을 내 팔로 안아 주었다"(호 11:3). 광야에서 하나님은 구름 기둥과 불 기둥으로 그들을 인도하셨다. 그들이 걸어야 할 길을 보여 주셨다. 주목하라. 하나님의 영적 이스라엘이 이처럼 지지를 받는다.

4. 그들에게 무엇이 잘못되면 그분이 그들의 의사가 되셨다. "내가 자기들을 고쳐 준 줄을 알지 못하였다."

5. 그분이 온화하고 부드러운 방법으로 그들을 그분의 섬김으로 이끄셨다(호 11:4). "내가 사람의 줄, 곧 사랑의 끈으로 그들을 이끌었다." 주목하라. 가난한 영혼들을 그분 자신에게로 이끄시는 것이 하나님의 일이다. (1) 사람의 줄로, 이성적이고 공평하고 쉽고 부드러운 방식으로, 사람답게 대하시면서. (2) 사랑의 끈으로. 그분은 힘으로 그들을 그분의 섬김으로 몰지 않으셨다. 그분의 모든 매력은 사랑스럽고 포용적인 것들이었다.

6. 그분이 그들을 오래 고통스럽게 했던 짐에서 벗어나게 해 주셨다(호 11:4). "그들의 목에서 멍에를 들어 올려 주는 자처럼." 이스라엘은 이집트에서 이처럼 묶여 있었다. 그러나 하나님이 그들을 자유하게 하셨다.

7. 그분이 그들에게 필요한 음식을 공급하셨다. "몸을 굽혀 그들을 먹였다." 이집트에서 힘들게 지냈지만 하나님이 그들을 이끌어 내시자 그들에게 음식을 제공하셨다.

**II. 이스라엘이 하나님을 향해 매우 배은망덕하였다.**

1. 그들은 그분의 말씀에 귀 먹고 불순종하였다. "사람들이 그들을 부를수록 그들은 오히려 떠나갔다"(호 11:2). 선지자들이 더 많이 촉구하고 간청할수록 그들은 더 반항적이고 악한 길에 더욱 결단하게 되었다.

2. 그들은 우상들을 좋아하고 그것들을 섬겼다. "그들은 바알들에게 제사하고 새긴 우상들에게 향을 피웠다."

3. 그들은 하나님과 그분이 그들에게 베풀어 주신 은혜들에 무관심하였다. "그들은 내가 자기들을 고쳐 준 줄을 알지 못하였다." 주목하라. 무지가 배은망덕의 밑바닥에 있다(호 2:8).

4. 그들은 배교에 강하게 기울어졌다(호 11:7). "내 백성은 나를 떠나기로 작정하였다." 여기서 모든 말이 악화시킨다. (1) 그들은 배교한다. (2) 그들이 나로부터 배교한다. (3) 그들이 배교하기로 작정되어 있다. (4) "그들은 고백으로는 내 백성이다."

5. 그들은 이상하게도 회개와 개혁에 소극적이었다. "그들이 회개하기를 거부하였다"(호 11:5). 주목하라. 회개하기를 거부하는 자들은 자신들이 그로 인해 잃게 되는 모든 위로들을 잃는 것이다.

**III. 하나님이 이스라엘을 향해 매우 진노하셨다.**

1. 그들을 이집트에서 이끌어 내신 하나님이 더 나쁜 처지로 이끄실 것이다(호 11:5). "앗시리아 사람이 그들의 왕이 될 것이다. 이는 그들이 회개하기를 거부하였기 때문이다." 주목하라. 자신들이 떠난 의무들로 돌아오지 않는 자들은 잃어버린 위로들도 돌이킬 것을 기대할 수 없다.

2. 하나님이 그들에게 가나안을 주셨는데, 거기서 안전하고 편안한 거처를 누리게 하셨는데, 그분의 심판들이 거기서 그들을 불안전하고 불편하게 만들 것이다(호 11:6). "칼이 그들의 성읍들 위에 떨어져 성문의 빗장을 부수고 그들의 계획을 끝장낼 것이다."

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H O S E A. CHAP. XI. In this chapter we have, I. The great goodness of God towards his people Israel, and the great things he had done for them, Hosea 11:1 ; Hosea 11:3 ; Hosea 11:4 . II. Their ungrateful conduct towards him, notwithstanding his favours towards them, Hosea 11:2-4 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 11:12 . III. Threatenings of wrath against them for their ingratitude and treachery, Hosea 11:5 ; Hosea 11:6 . IV. Mercy remembered in the midst of wrath, Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 11:9 . V. Promises of what God would yet do for them, Hosea 11:10 ; Hosea 11:11 . VI. An honourable character given of Judah, Hosea 11:12 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-7" class="com-number"

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이 장에는 다음이 담겨 있다. I. 이스라엘을 향한 하나님의 큰 선하심과 그분이 그들을 위해 행하신 큰일들(호 11:1, 3-4). II. 그분의 은혜에도 불구하고 그분을 향한 그들의 배은망덕한 행동(호 11:2, 4, 7, 12). III. 배은망덕과 배신에 대한 진노의 위협들(호 11:5-6). IV. 진노 가운데 기억된 자비(호 11:8-9). V. 하나님이 그들을 위해 행하실 것에 대한 약속들(호 11:10-11). VI. 유다에 대한 명예로운 성격 묘사(호 11:12).

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The Divine Forbearance. . 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the LORD : he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD . 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. In these verses we have, I. God's wonderful backwardness to destroy Israel ( Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 11:9 ): How shall I give thee up? Here observe, 1. God's gracious debate within himself concerning Israel's case, a debate between justice and mercy, in which victory plainly inclines to mercy's side. Be astonished, O heavens! at this, and wonder, O earth! at the glory of God's goodness. Not that there are any such struggles in God as there are in us, or that he is ever fluctuating or unresolved; no, he is in one mind, and knows it; but they are expressions after the manner of men, designed to show what severity the sin of Israel had deserved, and yet how divine grace would be glorified in sparing them notwithstanding. The connexion of this with what goes before is very surprising; it was said of Israel ( Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 11:7 ) that they were bent to backslide from God, that though they were called to him they would not exalt him, upon which, one would think, it should have followed, "Now I am determined to destroy them, and never show them mercy any more." No, such is the sovereignty of mercy, such the freeness, the fulness, of divine grace, that it follows immediately, How shall I give thee up? See here, (1.) The proposals that justice makes concerning Israel, the suggestion of which is here implied. Let Ephraim be given up, as an incorrigible son is given up to be disinherited, as an incurable patient is given over by his physician. Let him be given up to ruin. Let Israel be delivered into the enemy's hand, as a lamb to the lion to be torn in pieces; let them be made as Admah and set as Zeboim, the two cities that with Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone rained from heaven upon them; let them be utterly and irreparably ruined, and be made as like these cities in desolation as they have been in sin. Let that curse which is written in the law be executed upon them, that the whole land shall be brimstone and salt, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, Deuteronomy 29:23 . Ephraim and Israel deserve to be thus abandoned, and God will do them no wrong if he deal thus with them. (2.) The opposition that mercy makes to these proposals: How shall I do it? As the tender father reasons with himself, "How can I cast off my untoward son? for he is my son, though he be untoward; how can I find in my heart to do it?" Thus, "Ephraim has been a dear son, a pleasant child: How can I do it? He is ripe for ruin; judgments stand ready to seize him; there wants nothing but giving him up, but I cannot do it. They have been a people near unto me; there are yet some good among them; theirs are the children of the covenant; if they be ruined, the enemy will triumph; it may be they will yet repent and reform; and therefore how can I do it?" Note, The God of heaven is slow to anger, and is especially loth to abandon a people to utter ruin that have been in special relation to him. See how mercy works upon the mention of those severe proceedings: My heart is turned within me, as we say, Our heart fails us, when we come to do a thing that is against the grain with us. God speaks as if he were conscious to himself of a strange striving of affections in compassion to Israel: as Lamentations 1:20 , My bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me. As it follows here, My repentings are kindled together. His bowels yearned towards them, and his soul was grieved for their sin and misery, Judges 10:16 . Compare Jeremiah 31:20 . Since I spoke against him my bowels are troubled for him. When God was to give up his Son to be a sacrifice for sin, and a Saviour for sinners, he did not say, How shall I give him up? No, he spared not his own Son; it pleased the Lord to bruise him; and therefore God spared not him, that he might spare us. But this is only the language of the day of his patience; when men have sinned that away, and the great day of his wrath comes, then no difficulty is made of it; nay, I will laugh at their calamity. 2. His gracious determination of this debate. After a long contest mercy in the issue rejoices against judgment, has the last word, and carries the day, Hosea 11:9 ; Hosea 11:9 . It is decreed that the reprieve shall be lengthened out yet longer, and I will not now execute the fierceness of my anger, though I am angry; though they shall not go altogether unpunished, yet he will mitigate the sentence and abate the rigour of it. He will show himself to be justly angry, but not implacably so; they shall be corrected, but not consumed. I will not return to destroy Ephraim; the judgments that have been inflicted shall not be repeated, shall not go so deep as they have deserved. He will not return to destroy, as soldiers, when they have pillaged a town once, return a second time, to take more, as when what the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten. It is added, in the close of the Hosea 11:9 , " I will not enter into the city, into Samaria, or any other of their cities; I will not enter into them as an enemy, utterly to destroy them, and lay them waste, as I did the cities of Admah and Zeboim." 3. The ground and reason of this determination: For I am God and not man, the Holy One of Israel. To encourage them, to hope that they shall find mercy, consider, (1.) What he is in himself: He is God, and not man, as in other things, so in pardoning sin and sparing sinners. If they had offended a man like themselves, he would not, he could not have borne it; his passion would have overpowered his compassion, and he would have executed the fierceness of his anger; but I am God, and not man. He is Lord of his anger, whereas men's anger commonly lords it over them. If an earthly prince were in such a strait between justice and mercy, he would be at a loss how to compromise the matter between them; but he who is God, and not man, knows how to find out an expedient to secure the honour of his justice and yet advance the honour of his mercy. Man's compassions are nothing in comparison with the tender mercies of our God, whose thoughts and ways, in receiving returning sinners, are as much above ours as heaven is above the earth, Isaiah 55:9 . Note, It is a great encouragement to our hope in God's mercies to remember that he is God, and not man. He is the Holy One. One would think this were a reason why he should reject such a provoking people. No; God knows how to spare and pardon poor sinners, not only without any reproach to his holiness, but very much to the honour of it, as he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and therein declares his righteousness, now Christ has purchased the pardon and he has promised it. (2.) What he is to them; he is the Holy One in the midst of thee; his holiness is engaged for the good of his church, and even in this corrupt and degenerate land and age there were some that gave thanks at the remembrance of his holiness, and he required of them all to be holy as he is, Leviticus 19:2 . As long as we have the Holy One in the midst of us we are safe and well; but woe to us when he leaves us! Note, Those who submit to the influence may take the comfort of God's holiness. II. Here is his wonderful forwardness to do good for Israel, which appears in this, that he will qualify them to receive the good he designs for them ( Hosea 11:10 ; Hosea 11:11 ): They shall walk after the Lord. This respects the same favour with that ( Hosea 3:5 ; Hosea 3:5 ), They shall return, and seek the Lord their God; it is spoken of the ten tribes, and had its accomplishment, in part, in the return of some of them with those of the two tribes in Ezra's time; but it had its more full accomplishment in God's spiritual Israel, the gospel-church, brought together and incorporated by the gospel of Christ. The ancient Jews referred it to the time of the Messiah; the learned Dr. Pocock looks upon it as a prophecy of Christ's coming to preach the gospel to the dispersed children of Israel, the children of God that were scattered abroad. And then observe, 1. How they were to be called and brought together: The Lord shall roar like a lion. The word of the Lord (so says the Chaldee) shall be as a lion that roars. Christ is called the lion of the tribe of Judah, and his gospel, in the beginning of it, was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. When Christ cried with a loud voice it was as when a lion roared, Revelation 10:3 . The voice of the gospel was heard afar, as the roaring of a lion, and it was a mighty voice. See Joel 3:16 . 2. What impression this call should make upon them, such an impression as the roaring of a lion makes upon all the beasts of the forest: When he shall roar then the children shall tremble. See Amos 3:8 , The lion has roared; the Lord God has spoken; and then who will not fear? When those whose hearts the gospel reached trembled, and were astonished, and cried out, What shall we do? --when they were by it put upon working out their salvation, and worshipping God with fear and trembling, then this promise was fulfilled. The children shall tremble from the west. The dispersed Jews were carried eastward, to Assyria and Babylon, and those that returned came from the east; therefore this seems to have reference to the calling of the Gentiles that lay westward from Canaan, for that way especially the gospel spread. They shall tremble; they shall move and come with trembling, with care and haste, from the west, from the nations that lay that way, to the mountain of the Lord ( Isaiah 2:3 ), to the gospel-Jerusalem, upon hearing the alarm of the gospel. The apostle speaks of mighty signs and wonders that were wrought by the preaching of the gospel from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum, Romans 15:19 . Then the children trembled from the west. And, whereas Israel after the flesh was dispersed in Egypt and Assyria, it is promised that they shall be effectually summoned thence ( Hosea 11:11 ; Hosea 11:11 ): They shall tremble; they shall come trembling, and with all haste, as a bird upon the wing, out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; a dove is noted for swift and constant flight, especially when she flies to her windows, which the flocking of Jews and Gentiles to the church is here compared to, as it is Isaiah 60:8 . Wherever those are that belong to the election of grace--east, west, north, or south--they shall hear the joyful sound, and be wrought upon by it; those of Egypt and Assyria shall come together; those that lay most remote from each other shall meet in Christ, and be incorporated in the church. Of the uniting of Egypt and Assyria, it was prophesied, Isaiah 19:23 . 3. What effect these impressions should have upon them. Being moved with fear, they shall flee to the ark: They shall walk after the Lord, after the service of the Lord (so the Chaldee); they shall take the Lord Christ for their leader and commander; they shall enlist themselves under him as the captain of their salvation, and give up themselves to the direction of the Spirit as their guide by the word; they shall leave all to follow Christ, as becomes disciples. Note, Our holy trembling at the word of Christ will draw us to him, not drive us from him. When he roars like a lion the slaves tremble and flee from him, the children tremble and flee to him. 4. What entertainment they shall meet with at their return ( Hosea 11:11 ; Hosea 11:11 ): I will place them in their houses (all those that come at the gospel-call shall have a place and a name in the gospel-church, in the particular churches which are their houses, to which they pertain; they shall dwell in God, and be at home in him, both easy and safe, as a man in his own house; they shall have mansions, for there are many in our Father's house ), in his tabernacle on earth and his temple in heaven, in everlasting habitations, which may be called their houses, for they are the lot they shall stand in at the end of the days. III. Here is a sad complaint of the treachery of Ephraim and Israel, which may be an intimation that it is not Israel after the flesh, but the spiritual Israel, to whom the foregoing promises belong, for as for this Ephraim, this Israel, they compass God about with lies and deceit; all their services of him, when they pretended to compass his altar, were feigned and hypocritical; when they surrounded him with their prayers and praises, every one having a petition to present to him, they lied to him with their mouth and flattered him with their tongue; their pretensions were so fair, and yet their intentions so foul, that they would, if possible, have imposed upon God himself. Their professions and promises were all a cheat, and yet with these they thought to compass God about, to enclose him as it were, to keep him among them, and prevent his leaving them. IV. Here is a pleasant commendation of the integrity of the two tribes, which they held fast, and this comes in as an aggravation of the perfidiousness of the ten tribes, and a reason why God had that mercy in store for Judah which he had not for Israel ( Hosea 1:6 ; Hosea 1:7 ), for Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints, or with the Most Holy. 1. Judah rules with God, that is, he serves God, and the service of God is not only true liberty and freedom, but it is dignity and dominion. Judah rules, that is, the princes and governors of Judah rule with God; they use their power for him, for his honour, and the support of his interest. Those rule with God that rule in the fear of God ( 2 Samuel 23:3 ), and it is their honour to do so, and their praise shall be of God, as Judah's here is. Judah is Israel--a prince with God. 2. He is faithful with the holy God, keeps close to his worship and to his saints, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose steps they faithfully tread in. They walk in the way of good men; and those that do so rule with God, they have a mighty interest in Heaven. Judah yet does thus, which intimates that the time would come when Judah also would revolt and degenerate. Note, When we see how many there are that compass God about with lies and deceit it may be a comfort to us to think that God has his remnant that cleave to him with purpose of heart, and are faithful to his saints; and for those who are thus faithful unto death is reserved a crown of life, when hypocrites and all liars shall have their portion without. return to ' Top of Page ' Hosea Hos 10 Hosea Hos Hosea Hos 12 Footnotes: Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Bibliographical Information Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Hosea 11". 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> 에브라임아, 내가 어떻게 너를 포기하겠느냐? 이스라엘아, 내가 어떻게 너를 넘겨주겠느냐? 내가 어떻게 너를 아드마처럼 만들겠느냐? 내가 어떻게 너를 스보임처럼 되게 하겠느냐? 내 마음이 내 속에서 돌이키고 내 긍휼이 불붙듯 일어난다. 나는 나의 맹렬한 진노를 쏟지 않겠고, 다시는 에브라임을 멸하려고 돌아서지 않겠다. 이는 내가 하나님이요 사람이 아니며, 네 가운데 계신 거룩하신 분이기 때문이다. 나는 진노로 임하지 않겠다. 그들은 여호와를 따라 걸을 것이다. 여호와께서 사자처럼 부르짖으실 것이니, 그분이 부르짖으시면 자녀들이 서쪽에서부터 떨며 올 것이다. 그들이 이집트에서부터 새처럼, 앗시리아 땅에서부터 비둘기처럼 떨며 올 것이니, 내가 그들을 그들의 집에 살게 하겠다고 여호와께서 말씀하신다. 에브라임은 거짓으로, 이스라엘 집은 속임수로 나를 둘러쌌다. 유다는 여전히 하나님을 떠나 방황하며 거룩하신 분께 신실하지 못하다. (호 11:8-12)

**I. 이스라엘을 멸망시키기를 하나님이 놀라울 만큼 꺼리신다(호 11:8-9).** "에브라임아, 내가 어떻게 너를 포기하겠느냐?"

1. 이스라엘의 경우에 대한 하나님의 은혜로운 내적 토론이다. 정의와 자비 사이의 토론으로, 자비가 분명히 이기는 쪽으로 기울어진다. 하늘이여, 이 일에 놀라라! 땅이여, 기이히 여겨라! 하나님께 우리가 하는 것과 같은 갈등이 있는 것이 아니다. 그분은 한 마음이시고 그것을 아신다. 그러나 이것들은 이스라엘의 죄가 얼마나 엄한 형벌을 받을 만한지, 그러나 하나님의 은혜가 그럼에도 그들을 아끼심으로 얼마나 영화롭게 되는지를 보여 주기 위한 사람의 방식으로 말씀된 것이다.

(1) 정의가 제안하는 것이 암시된다. 에브라임이 포기되게 하라. 에브라임이 아드마와 스보임처럼 되게 하라. 소돔과 고모라와 함께 불과 유황으로 멸망한 두 성읍처럼.

(2) 자비가 이 제안들에 반대한다. "내가 그것을 어떻게 하겠느냐? 에브라임은 사랑받는 아들이었다. 어떻게 내가 그것을 할 수 있겠느냐?" 이처럼 자비가 일한다. "내 마음이 내 속에서 돌이킨다. 내 긍휼이 불붙듯 일어난다"(애 1:20 참조; 삿 10:16). 하나님의 창자들이 그들을 향해 솟구쳤다. 그분의 영혼이 그들의 죄와 비참함으로 괴로워하셨다.

2. 이 토론의 은혜로운 결정이다. 자비가 심판보다 기뻐 이긴다. "나는 나의 맹렬한 진노를 쏟지 않겠다. 다시는 에브라임을 멸하려고 돌아서지 않겠다."

3. 이 결정의 근거와 이유이다. "이는 내가 하나님이요 사람이 아니기 때문이다."

(1) 그분이 그 자체로 어떠하신가. 그분은 하나님이시지 사람이 아니시다. 만약 그들이 자신들처럼 사람을 격노케 하였다면, 그의 열정이 그의 동정을 압도하여 진노의 맹렬함을 쏟았을 것이다. 그러나 "나는 하나님이지 사람이 아니다." 그분은 자신의 진노의 주이시다. 신적 자비는 우리 것과 비할 수 없이 훨씬 뛰어나다. 죄인들을 받아들이는 데 있어서 하나님의 생각과 방법들은 우리 것이 하늘에서 땅이 떨어진 것만큼 우리 것보다 높다(사 55:9). 주목하라. 하나님이 사람이 아니라 하나님이시라는 것을 기억하는 것이 하나님의 자비에 대한 우리의 소망에 큰 격려이다.

(2) 그분이 그들에게 어떠하신가. "나는 네 가운데 계신 거룩하신 분이다." 그분의 거룩하심이 그분의 교회의 선을 위해 헌신되어 있다. 주목하라. 하나님의 거룩하심의 영향을 받아들이는 자들은 그것의 위로를 취할 수 있다.

**II. 그분이 이스라엘을 위해 선을 행하려는 놀라운 기꺼이 하심이다(호 11:10-11).** "그들은 여호와를 따라 걸을 것이다."

1. 그들이 어떻게 불리고 모이는가. "여호와께서 사자처럼 부르짖으실 것이다." 그리스도는 유다 지파의 사자라 불린다. 그분의 복음은 처음에는 광야에서 외치는 자의 소리였다. 복음의 소리가 사자의 울부짖음처럼 멀리 들렸다(계 10:3). 복음 선포는 사자가 부르짖을 때 모든 삼림의 짐승들에게 하는 것과 같은 인상을 그들에게 주어야 했다.

2. 이 부름이 그들에게 어떤 인상을 주는가. "자녀들이 서쪽에서부터 떨며 올 것이다." 분산된 유대인들은 동쪽으로 끌려갔고 돌아오는 자들도 동쪽에서 왔다. 따라서 이것은 주로 가나안에서 서쪽으로 자리잡은 이방 사람들의 부름을 가리키는 것 같다. 그 방향으로 특히 복음이 퍼졌다.

3. 이 인상들이 그들에게 어떤 효과를 주는가. 두려움을 품고 그들은 방주로 달려올 것이다. "그들은 여호와를 따라 걸을 것이다." 그분을 구원의 대장으로 그들의 인도자와 사령관으로 받아들여 그분의 깃발 아래 등록할 것이다. 주목하라. 그리스도의 말씀에 대한 우리의 거룩한 두려움이 우리를 그분에게서 멀어지게 하는 것이 아니라 그분에게로 이끌 것이다.

4. 그들이 돌아올 때 어떤 영접을 받게 될 것인가(호 11:11). "내가 그들을 그들의 집에 살게 하겠다." 복음의 부름에 오는 모든 이들은 복음 교회 안에서 자리와 이름을 가질 것이다.

**III. 에브라임과 이스라엘의 배신에 대한 슬픈 불평이다.** 이것은 앞의 약속들이 육신적 이스라엘이 아니라 영적 이스라엘에게 속한 것임을 암시할 수 있다. "에브라임은 거짓으로, 이스라엘 집은 속임수로 나를 둘러쌌다." 제단 주위를 둘러싸는 것처럼 그분 주위에 있는 것처럼 보이는 모든 그들의 섬김들은 거짓되고 위선적이었다. 하나님 자신도 속이려 하였다.

**IV. 두 지파의 온전함에 대한 기쁜 칭찬이다.** 이것은 열 지파의 불신실함을 악화시키고 하나님이 이스라엘에게는 갖지 않은 자비를 유다에게 갖고 계신 이유이다(호 1:6-7).

1. "유다는 하나님을 떠나 방황한다"고 WEB 번역에서 보이는데, 원문 영어 주석에서 헨리는 유다가 여전히 하나님을 섬기며 신실한 것을 칭찬한다. 유다는 다윗의 집이 있고 성전과 제사장직을 여전히 유지하고 있었다. 이것이 유다에 대한 명예이다.

2. 그는 거룩하신 분과 함께 신실하다. 그는 아브라함, 이삭, 야곱의 발자취를 신실하게 따른다. 아직 유다가 이렇게 한다는 것은, 유다도 배교하고 타락할 날이 올 것임을 암시한다. 주목하라. 거짓과 속임수로 하나님을 둘러싸는 자들이 얼마나 많은지 볼 때 신실하게 그분을 붙드는 남은 자들이 있다는 것이 위로가 된다.

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