...Hosea, in the former part of it, has been turned into histoiy : " The children of Israel " have abode many days without a king, and " without a prince,...image, and without an ephod, and " without teraphim." And I trust that, in answer to the prayers, and by the blessing of God on the exertions, of Christians,...

...is the same, for there the ephod and teraphim is combined with matsiva, a statue, also an image. " For the children of Israel shall abide many days without...prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, (matsiva, a ' statue or stone image,) without an ephod, and without teraphim. These were also images,...

...afterwards predicted by later prophets. Seven hundred years before the ^birth of our Saviour, Hosea said, " the children of Israel shall abide many days without...king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice." Now here are prophecies that have been fulfilling for eighteen hundred years — and are daily fulfilling....

...it forever. * Ezek. xxxiv. 23, xxxvii. 22, 23, 24* 25. The same is foretold by the Prophet Hosea. " The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a Prince and without sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and withoutteraphim. Afterward shall, the children...

...Psalm to apply. Hosea, who wrote about 200 years after David's death, says, (chap. in. verse 4, 5.) " The children " of Israel shall abide many days without " a king, and without a prince, and with" out a sacrifice, and without an image, " and without teraphim ; afterwards shall ' the children...

...descendents who are scattered among you, the poor Jews, who, as the prophet foretold, have " abode many days, without a king, and without " a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an " ephod, and without teraphim."1 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Moses, David, Isaiah and all the prophets,...

...not my people, Thou, my people ; and they shall say, Thou my God. — Hosea ii. 23. Zech. ii. 10, 11. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, &c. and shall fear the Lord, &c. — Hoseaiii.5. ii. 19.20. Zech.xn.9. When Israel was a child, then...

...not my people, Thou, my people ; and they shall say, Thou my God. — Hosea ii. 23. Zech. ii. 10, 11. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, &c. and shall fear the Lord, &c. — Hoseaiii.5. ii. 19. 20. Zech. xii. 9. When Israel was a child,...

...concerning the election, are beloved for the fathers' sake. Need I say, that with this agrees the word of prophecy ? For the children of Israel shall abide...without teraphim. Afterward shall the children of Israel relurn and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness...

...thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man : so will I also be for thee. 4 was like a lamb or an ox tlmt is brought to the slaughter...against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the : 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king;...