the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Hosea 11:1
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The Lord said, "I loved Israel when he was a child, and I called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child [a young nation], I loved him, And I called My son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, And called my son out of Egypt.
As the morewtid passith, the king of Israel schal passe forth. For Israel was a child, and Y louyde hym; and fro Egipt Y clepide my sone.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.
"When Isra'el was a child, I loved him; and out of Egypt I called my son.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
When Israel was a childe, then I loued him, and called my sonne out of Egypt.
"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
"When Israel was a child, I loved him. And I called My son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
When Israel was a childe, then I loued him, and called my sonne out of Egypt.
WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called him, my son, out of Egypt.
When Israel was, a child, then I loved him, - and, out of Egypt, called I my son.
As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
When Israel was young, I loued him, and called my sonne out of the lande of Egypt.
Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.
The Lord says, "When Israel was a child, I loved him and called him out of Egypt as my son.
When Israel was a child, I loved him,
"When Yisra'el was a child, then I loved him, And called my son out of Mitzrayim.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Because Israel [is] a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.
When Israel was yoge, I loued him: and called my sonne out of the londe of Egipte.
"When Israel was only a child, I loved him. I called out, ‘My son!'—called him out of Egypt. But when others called him, he ran off and left me. He worshiped the popular sex gods, he played at religion with toy gods. Still, I stuck with him. I led Ephraim. I rescued him from human bondage, But he never acknowledged my help, never admitted that I was the one pulling his wagon, That I lifted him, like a baby, to my cheek, that I bent down to feed him. Now he wants to go back to Egypt or go over to Assyria— anything but return to me! That's why his cities are unsafe—the murder rate skyrockets and every plan to improve things falls to pieces. My people are hell-bent on leaving me. They pray to god Baal for help. He doesn't lift a finger to help them. But how can I give up on you, Ephraim? How can I turn you loose, Israel? How can I leave you to be ruined like Admah, devastated like luckless Zeboim? I can't bear to even think such thoughts. My insides churn in protest. And so I'm not going to act on my anger. I'm not going to destroy Ephraim. And why? Because I am God and not a human. I'm The Holy One and I'm here—in your very midst.
"When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
When Israel was a youth I loved him,And out of Egypt I called My son.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Israel: Hosea 2:15, Deuteronomy 7:7, Jeremiah 2:2, Ezekiel 16:6, Malachi 1:2
called: Exodus 4:22, Matthew 2:15
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:45 - be holy Deuteronomy 33:3 - he loved Psalms 129:1 - from Isaiah 43:4 - I Have Isaiah 49:15 - yet Jeremiah 31:3 - I have Jeremiah 31:32 - in the Ezekiel 16:8 - thy time Ezekiel 16:22 - General Hosea 9:10 - found Acts 2:10 - Egypt Romans 9:4 - the adoption
Cross-References
In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of Hosts. One shall be called, City of Ruin.
For then I will give a clear lip to the peoples, to call all of them by the name of Jehovah, to serve Him with one shoulder.
But this sound occurring, the multitude came together and were confounded, because they each heard them speaking in his own dialect.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him,.... Or, "for Israel [was] a child" u; a rebellious and disobedient one, therefore his king was cut off in a morning, and he has been, and will be, without a king many days; yet still "I loved him": or, "though Israel [was] a child" w; a weak, helpless, foolish, and imprudent one, "yet I loved him": or, "when a child"; in the infancy of his civil and church state, when in Egypt, and in the wilderness; the Lord loved him, not only as his creature, as he does all the works of his hands, but with a more special love than he loved others; choosing them to be a special people above all others; giving them his law, his statutes, and his judgments, his word and his worship, which he did not give to other nations. So he loves spiritual and mystical Israel, all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles, when children, as soon as born, and though born in sin, carnal and corrupt; yea, before they are born, and when having done neither good nor evil; and so may be expressive both of the earliness and antiquity of his love to them, and of the freeness of it, without any merits or motives of theirs;
and called my son out of Egypt, not literal Israel, as before, whom God called his son, and his firstborn, and demanded his dismission from Pharaoh, and called him, and brought him out of Egypt with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; and which was a type of his calling spiritual Israel, his adopted sons, out of worse than Egyptian bondage and darkness: but his own natural and only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ; for these words are expressly said to be fulfilled in him, Matthew 2:15; not by way of allusion; or by accommodation of phrases; or as the type is fulfilled in the antitype; or as a proverbial expression, adapted to any deliverance; but literally: the first and only sense of the words respects Christ, who in his infancy was had to Egypt for shelter from Herod's rage and fury, and, when he was dead, and those that sought the life of Jesus, he was by an angel of the Lord, warning Joseph of it, called out of Egypt, and brought into Judea, Matthew 2:19; and this as a proof of the love of God to Israel; which as it was expressed to him in his infancy, it continued and appeared in various instances, more or less unto the coming of Christ; who, though obliged for a while to go into Egypt, must not continue there, but must be called from thence, to be brought up in the land of Judea; to do his miracles, preach his doctrines, and do good to the bodies and souls of men there, being sent particularly to the lost sheep of the house of Israel; and, above all, in order to work out the salvation and redemption of his special people among them, and of the whole Israel of God everywhere else; which is the greatest instance of love to them, and to the world of the Gentiles, that ever was known, John 3:16 1 John 2:2.
u כי "quia", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius. w "Quamvis sit puer", Tarnovius, Rivet.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When Israel was a child, then I loved him - God loved Israel, as He Himself formed it, ere it corrupted itself. He loved it for the sake of the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as he saith, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated” Malachi 1:2. Then, when it was weak, helpless, oppressed by the Egyptians, afflicted, destitute, God loved him, cared for him, delivered him from oppression, and called him out of Egypt. : “When did He love Israel? When, by His guidance, Israel regained freedom, his enemies were destroyed, he was fed with “food from heaven,” he heard the voice of God, and received the law from Him. He was unformed in Egypt; then he was informed by the rules of the law, so as to be matured there. He was a child in that vast waste. For he was nourished, not by solid food, but by milk, i. e., by the rudiments of piety and righteousness, that he might gradually attain the strength of a man. So that law was a schoolmaster, to retain Israel as a child, by the discipline of a child, until the time should come when all, who despised not the heavenly gifts, should receive the Spirit of adoption. The prophet then, in order to show the exceeding guilt of Israel, says, “When Israel was a child,” (in the wilderness, for then he was born when he bound himself to conform to the divine law, and was not yet matured) “I loved him,” i. e., I gave him the law, priesthood, judgments, precepts, instructions; I loaded him with most ample benefits; I preferred him to all nations, expending on him, as on My chief heritage and special possession, much watchful care and pains.”
I called My son out of Egypt - As He said to Pharaoh, “Israel is My son, even My firstborn; let My son go, that he may serve Me” Exodus 4:22-23. God chose him out of all nations, to be His special people. Yet also God chose him, not for himself, but because He willed that Christ, His only Son, should “after the flesh” be born of him, and for, and in, the Son, God called His people, “My son.” : “The people of Israel was called a son, as regards the elect, yet only for the sake of Him, the only begotten Son, begotten, not adopted, who, “after the flesh,” was to be born of that people, that, through His Passion, He might bring many sons to glory, disdaining not to have them as brethren and co-heirs. For, had He not come, who was to come, the Well Beloved Son of God, Israel too could never, anymore than the other nations, have been called the son of so great a Father, as the Apostle, himself of that people, saith, “For we were, by nature, children of wrath, even as others” Ephesians 2:3.
Since, however, these words relate to literal Israel, the people whom God brought out by Moses, how were they fulfilled in the infant Jesus, when He was brought back out of Egypt, as Matthew teaches us, they were?” Matthew 2:15.
Because Israel himself was a type of Christ, and for the sake of Him who was to be born of the seed of Israel, did God call Israel, “My son;” for His sake only did he deliver him. The two deliverances, of the whole Jewish people, and of Christ the Head, occupied the same position in God’s dispensations. He rescued Israel, whom He called His son, in its childish and infantine condition, at the very commencement of its being, as a people. His true Son by Nature, Christ our Lord, He brought up in His Infancy, when He began to show forth His mercies to us in Him. Both had, by His appointment, taken refuge in Egypt; both were, by His miraculous call to Moses in the bush, to Joseph in the dream, recalled from it. Matthew apparently quotes these words, not to prove anything, but in order to point out the relation of God’s former dealings with the latter, the beginning and the close, what relates to the body, and what relates to the Head. He tells us that the former deliverance had its completion in Christ, that in His deliverance was the full solid completion of that of Israel; and that then indeed it might, in its completest fullness, be said, “Out of Egypt have I called My Son.”
When Israel was brought out of Egypt, the figure took place; when Christ was called, the reality was fulfilled. The act itself, on the part of God, was prophetic. When He delivered Israel, and called him His firstborn, He willed, in the course of time, to bring up from Egypt His Only-Begotten Son. The words are prophetic, because the event which they speak of, was prophetic. “They speak of Israel as one collective body, and, as it were, one person, called by God “My son,” namely, by adoption, still in the years of innocency, and beloved by God, called of God out of Egypt by Moses, as Jesus, His true Son, was by the Angel.” The following verses are not prophetic, because in them the prophet no longer speaks of Israel as one, but as composed of the many sinful individuals in it. Israel was a prophetic people, in regard to this dispensation of God toward him; not in regard to his rebellions and sins.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XI
This chapter gives a very pathetic representation of God's
tender and affectionate regard for Israel, by metaphors
chiefly borrowed from the conduct of mothers toward their
tender offspring. From this, occasion is taken to reflect on
their ungrateful return to the Divine goodness, and to denounce
against them the judgments of the Almighty, 1-7.
But suddenly and unexpectedly the prospect changes. Beams of
mercy break frown the clouds just now fraught with vengeance.
God, to speak in the language of men, feels the relentings of a
tender parent; his bowels yearn; his mercy triumphs; his
rebellious child shall yet be pardoned. As the lion of the
tribe of Judah, he will employ his power to save his people, he
will call his children from the land of their captivity; and,
as doves, they will fly to him, a faithful and a holy people,
8-12.
NOTES ON CHAP. XI
Verse Hosea 11:1. When Israel was a child — In the infancy of his political existence.
I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. — Where he was greatly oppressed; and in this I gave the proof of my love. I preserved my people in their affliction there, and brought them safely out of it.
