Hosea

Cornelius à Lapide SJ · Biblical Commentary

À Lapide's Hosea commentary opens with the scandal of the prophetic marriage, which he expounds — following Origen and Jerome — as a figure of God's covenant love betrayed by Israel's idolatry and fulfilled in Christ's union with the Church. The literary prophecies of restoration (Hos. 2:14–23; 11:1; 14:5–9) are treated as among the most tender expressions of divine mercy in the entire Old Testament.