Osee — Chapter 4
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
Children of Israel import the whole people of the ten, & two tribes, so he speaketh to al til. v. 11. Knowledge of God includeth the keeping of his commandments, for he that saith, he knoweth God, and keepeth not his commandments, is a lier. 1. Ioan. 2.v.4.
Verse 6
Function of Priefts which is properly sacrifice, being taken away, al spiritual offices decay therwith.
Verse 12
Certaine sinnes more then others doe obscure mans vnderstanding, but spiritual fornication blindeth the hart aboue al other vices.
Verse 15
It was a greater sinne in the Kingdom of Iuda to commit idolatrie, where they had the publike true seruice of God in the temple, then in Israel, where Ieroboam had set vp calues, and forbid the people from going to Ierusalem.