Excerpt from Hosea: Translated From the Hebrew, With Notes Explanatory and Critical After the marriage the Prophet's wife bore three children. Thefe children reprefent, as I have obferved, certain 'diftinet parts or de fcriptions of the Jewifh nation, of the whole of which the Mother was the emblem. Ofthefe three children the eldeft and the youngeft were fons: the intermediate childwas a daughter. The eldeft, I think, was the Prophet's ion but the two lalt were both baftards. In this I have the concurrence of Dr. Wells; acutely remarking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.