Hosea 11:1

Verse 1. Away. The last kings of Israel lived in the midst of troubles. Bible.—Osee, though one of the best, brought ruin on the nation. Calmet.—Son: Israel. But as the calling of Israel out of Egypt was a figure of the calling of Christ from thence; therefore this text is also applicable to Christ, as we learn from S. Matthew 2:15. Challoner. Julian pretends that the apostle has abused this text. But it speaks of both events. Saint Jerome—Eusebius (Dem. ix. 3.) thinks that S. Mat. refers to Balaam; (Numbers 24:8) and S. Jerom does not reject this opinion, (in Matthew 2. Calmet.) to avoid “wrangling,” though he repeatedly alleges this text as a proof his version being more accurate than that of the Septuagint which has his children. This reading the best editions retain; so that it may seem a matter of surprise, that Fabricius should give this verse as a specimen of Origen’s Hexapla, and still print my son, taking it, as he says, from the Barbarini copy, the London Polyglot, and Cave. Bib. Greek iii. 12. The first column has the Hebrew text, and the second the same in Greek characters, and so forth The reader may form a judgment of this work from the following specimen: 1. Hebrew (which we shall express) karathi bani. 2. Greek καραθι βανι. 3. Aq. εκαλεσα τον υιον μου. 4. Sym. κεκληται υιος μου. 5. Septuagint κεκληται υιος μου. 6. Th. και εκαλεσα υιον μου. If any other versions were added, to form Octapla, and so forth they were placed after Theodotion, who, though prior to Symmachus, is placed after him, because his version was not so unlike that of the Septuagint and the deficiencies were chiefly supplied from him. In the Rom. and Alex. edit. instead of the above we find, μετεκαλεσα τα τεκνα αυτου. “I have recalled his children.” Bible.—This is literally spoken of Israel, (styled God’s son, Exodus 4:23) and mystically, ( Worthington.) though no less ( Bible.) truly, of Jesus Christ, as the inspired evangelist shews. Worthington.