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title: "Commentary on Hosea"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 75 of 86
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/75/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Hosea, section 75. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/75/"
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# Commentary on Hosea

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Hosea, the prophet of a faithful God and an unfaithful people.

## 75. Chapter 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/75/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/75/#p-N

[¶0] 1 And Jehovah said to me, — “Go again, love a woman beloved by a husband, and who is an adulteress, — according to the love of Jehovah towards the children of Israel, who yet look to strange gods, and love flagons of grapes.”

[¶1] 2 And I bought her for myself for fifteen silverings and one homer of barley, and half an homer of barley.

[¶2] 3 And I said to her, — “For many days shalt thou abide for me; thou shalt not play the wanton, and shalt not be for any man, and I also shall be for thee.”

[¶3] 4 For the children of Israel shall for many days abide without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without a statue, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.

[¶4] 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they shall fear Jehovah and his goodness at the end of days.