...brought back again to the still unbroken fountain : as it is written in the second chapter of Hosea — " I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...allured him. It is beautifully described — yea, to the very life — by the prophet Hosea : — " Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...; and though they have left the visitation they will return, and fulfil that passage which says, " therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...them, though thou tookest vengeance on their inventions." Fifthly, Preventing of sin. Hos. ii. 6. " I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths." The crook in the lot will readily be found to lie cross to some wrong...

...their mother hath played the harlot ; she that conceived them hath done shamefully : for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and...hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...prophet Hoseaf represents the Jews of his time as saying, " I will go after my lovers (the idol gods), that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." To a reproof from Jeremiah for their idolatry, they replied : " As for the word that thou hast spoken...

...represents the Jews of his time as saying, " I will go after my lovers (the idol gods), that give me rfy bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." To a reproof from Jeremiah for their idolatry, they replied : " As for the word that thou hast spoken...

...withdraw us from evil ways, to divorce us from the rivals which seduce us ; and now we hear him saying, " I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths : and she shall follow after lovers, but shall not overtake them ; and...

...my first husband, for then was it better with me than now," is the same who said in ver. 7 (5) : " I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax." To the same result, we are also led by the showing of mercy to her children, announced in the first...

...result of this humility was a brokenness of will before God. So he writes : " May the Divine promise, ' I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths,' be fulfilled in our experience ! Let us rather suffer a thousand afflictions...