...introduction and its interpretation, the prophet began his address: " Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, And I am not her husband ; Let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from her bosom." (HoSEA ii. 4-6.)...

...from the second verse of the same chapter, where it is said that they should plead 'with their mother, "for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband," "mother" and "wife" in the Word signifying the church. ,[6.] In Moses : " By little and little I will...

...sense are falsifications and perversions of good and truth, thus adulterations of these — in Hosea : Plead with your mother, plead ; for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband : and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. ....

...4O1. It is with the mother, viz. Israel herself, that complaint must be made, not with Yahweh. — For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband.~\ This is not (i) the word of judgment pronounced, 15 being = 5n;J nor (2) is it merely a parenthetical...

...THREATENING (18)* _ Say to your brother, " My people," and to your sister, " Mercy." (Say unto them) Plead with your mother, plead, For she is not my wife, And I am not her husband ; That she put away her whoredoms from before her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts...

...illegitimate children, the husband uses the divorce formula: ki hi' lo' 'ishti ve'anokhi lo' 'ishah, "for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband" (with the lo', "not," which appears twice here, cf. the two names of children which have lo' as one...

...their apostate mother; he therefore calls upon the individual Israelites against Israel as a whole: 'Plead with your mother, plead - for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband!' Here me father-son relationship is expanded into a family image widi die help of the image of marriage;...

...metaphor as a call to repentance as effectively as he could make of it a description of the nation's sin. "Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;" (2:1)...

...The language is uncompromisingly descriptive. "Plead with your mother," the Lord says to the prophet, "for she is not my wife and I am not her husband" (2:2). But then having been disciplined and cut off from her lovers, "then she will say, T will go...

...his followers that it is he, and not Baal, who gives them the rain necessary for their daily needs: "Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; lest I...