the Lord. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Go yet. Go again. See notes on Hosea 1:2.
love. Not "take", as in Hosea 1:2, or love again.
a woman. Not "Gomer" (Hosea 1:3) again, but another; hence we must believe that Gomer had died; and that this was. second marriage with its own special signification.
her friend: i. e. Hosea himself.
yet, &c.. though [she has become] an adulteress. Referring to Israel's present condition in this Dispensation (App-12).
adulteress: i. e. an idolatress; and denotes only. woman of the northern tribes.
according, &c. This is the manifestation of Divine love.
children. sons.
look to other gods. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy 31:20).
flagons of wine. cakes of grapes.