...which has been a very thorn in the sides of commentators, "out of Egypt have I called my son ;" or, " when Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Observe, how the comparison stands between Israel and Christ. Israel was sent down from Canaan into...

...subject from common sense. In the prophet Hosea, at the eleventh chapter and first verse, we read, " When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt:" and this, as Collins and Mr. English have well ohserved, is no prophecy at all.* It is clearly no prophecy....

...because of your great wickedness : in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut oft'. CHAP. XI. WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them : they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to...

...Enhraiin is my first-born." Ver. 20. " Is Ephraim my dear son ? u he a pleasant child?" Hos. xi. I. " When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.'' To which I must add Jer. xxxi. 1. " At the same time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the...

...throne of God. 15. (x) " That it might be fulfilled." The passage referred to is in Hosea xi. I. " When Israel was a child, then I loved " him, and called my son out of " Egypt ;" and it has the appearance of referring to the early times of the Jewish history, speaking of the...

...and called thee from the chief men thereof. See ver. 2. chap. li. 2. Ho», xi. 1, When Israel ::oí a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. Isai. xlviii. 12, Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called. 11. And as he brought them out of...

...out of Egypt is represented by Matthew (ii. 15) as a fulfilment of that declaration of Hosea — " When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." (xl. 1.) And the fact, that in the *uffer'ings of Christ not a bone of him was broken, is represented...

...against him." And it is observable, that what God spake, by his prophet Hosea, concerning Israel, " When Israel was a child, then I " loved him, and called my son out of Egypt," is by St. Matthew applied to Christ ; " Joseph took the " young child and his mother by night, and...

...in the letter, the son called out of Egypt is the national Israel : for the text itself runs, IVhen Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.1 Yet, notwithstanding this circumstance, St. Matthew asserts, that the text is not only declarative...

...Egypt have I called my son." This passage is in the book of Hosea, chap. xi. ver. 1. The words are," When Israel was a child then I loved him " and called my son out of Egypt — As they called them, so " they went from them, they sacrificed unto Baalam and " burnt incense...