...loved him : I taught Ephraim also, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy : for I am God, and not...

...Egypt." " I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." Or as Tyndal has it : "I learned Ephraim to go, and bare them in my arms. I led in the cords of friendship...

...missionary labours, or who undertake the work of an evangelist in preaching the Gospel to the heathen. " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love " (Hos. xi. 4). And the eagle denotes the lofty range and far-sightedness of prophecy. That this exhausts...

...affections and sensibilities, and these can be wrought upon in various ways ; and hence it is written, " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." I have seen men going from one place to another, and even hastening to distant and sickly climes, drawn...

...Egypt." I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." Or as Tyndal has it : "I learned Ephraim to go and bare them in my arms. I led in the cords of friendship...

...Ephraim to ride ; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods." xi. 4. " I drew them with the cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." AMOS ix. 9. " I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve,...

...flesh ; and also Ephraim, the younger son of Joseph, who represented the children of the promise.) " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love...them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws." (So, according to the primary signification of this prophecy, the Lord declares, Lev. xxvi. 13.) "...

...chiefly by the power of affectionate kindness. Jehovah, speaking of Israel, by the prophet, says — " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." Hos. xi. 4. " It is God's work to draw poor souls to himself," says the Rev. Matthew Henry, " by mild...

...we may be justly reminded of the declaration of a Prophet, when he speaks of the divine procedure, " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." That saying is attractively illustrated by the condescending representation vouchsafed of God, of our...

...understanding destroys its proper acts. No. It doth not destroy, but perfect it. Hence that expression — " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." He finds us unwilling. He makes us willing. So that all along free grace is to have the glory : as...