CONTENTS
The prophecy opens with an account of the Prophet himself, and the period in which he ministered to the Church. The Prophet becomes a Type, as well as a Preacher, in the Church of God.
This is the preface to what follows. It is the Lord's word, and therefore worthy of the greatest attention. And the time of the Prophets ministry is also mentioned. Hosea laboured long in the word and doctrine. For if it be calculated, only the time of his ministry, supposing only from the last year of Uzziah, to the first year of Hezekiah, this included a period of near seventy years: so that if Hosea began his prophetical character even at the age of twenty, he must have lived to between ninety and an hundred years.