Hosea 7:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

all. all of them (kings, princes, and People are idolaters). "All" is put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus), for the greater part.

adulterers: i.e. idolaters. See note on Hosea 1:2.

as. [hot] like.

ceaseth. leaves off.

raising. stoking it.

after he hath kneaded, &c.. from [the time of] kneading the dough until it is ready for the fire. Then he heats the oven to stop the fermentation. Even so these idolaters. See note on "baker", Hosea 7:6.

Hosea 7:4

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.