...of the faithful, fulfilling the divine promise, in its practical sense and in its ultimate effect, "O death, I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy destruction." This analogy between the Lord's life in the world and His life in the human soul is not, as some may...

...giveth us the victory." No power short of Omnipotence was equal to it; and he claims it to himself. " I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I...thy plagues ; O grave ! I will be thy destruction." (Hoe. xiii. 14.) But how was it brought about; by what means or instrument was this glorious victory...

...herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." And Christ, by the mouth of the prophet Hosea, says, " I will ransom them from the power of the grave : I...be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction " These divine supports for faith and consolations against the fears of death, which are all most divinely...

...the place of the breaking forth of children. 14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; 1 will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy plagues ; O grave, 1 will be thy destruction : repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. 15 Though he be fruitful among...

...an allusion to a passage of Hosea; where God, or rather the Son of God, is introduced as saying : " I will ransom them " from the power of the grave :...thy plagues; " O grave, I will be thy destruction." But the two latter clauses may with equal propriety be translated, as they are by the Septuagint and...

...a resurrection both of the just and the unjust. But the glorious Redeemer has said of his people, " I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I...be thy plagues ; O grave, I will be thy destruction !" Yes, Jesus is made unto us redemption; namely, "the redemption of the body ;" and " the creature...

...therefore behold, to mine unspeakable consolation, a practical comment on those prophetical words, O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction, (Hosea xiii. 14;) and also on those words of His own, / am the resurrection and the life ; he that...

...passage in Hosea plainly states God's gracious intention of bestowing upon mankind everlasting life : " I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I...be thy plagues ; O grave, I will be thy destruction (k)." To these positive declarations, relative to the redemption by Christ, we may add that the call...

...shall he " not do it ? I will redeem them from death, I will " ransom them from the power of the grave; O death, " I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy de" struction. Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. " I am Jehovah, and change not." But how is...

...is the devil."f "Our old "man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be "destroyed. "i{ "O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, "I will be thy dcstruction!"§ Under this consideration, the effect of his death is salvation; and, alluding to the...