Osee 1:8
And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she conceived, and bore a son.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ablactavit eam quæ erat Absque misericordia. Et concepit, et peperit filium.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπεγαλάκτισεν τὴν Οὐκ ἠλεημένην, καὶ συνέλαβεν ἔτι καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּגְמֹ֖ל אֶת לֹ֣א רֻחָ֑מָה וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֥לֶד בֵּֽן
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book IV, Chapter XX. That one God formed all
12. However, it was not by means of visions alone which were seen, and words which were proclaimed, but also in actual works, that He was beheld by the prophets, in order that through them He might prefigure and show forth future events beforehand. For this reason did Hosea the prophet take “a wife of whoredoms,” prophesying by means of the action, “that in committing fornication the earth should fornicate from the Lord ,” that is, the men who are upon the earth; and from men of this stamp it will be God’s good pleasure to take out a Church which shall be sanctified by fellowship with His Son, just as that woman was sanctified by intercourse with the prophet. …