Cyril of Alexandria, on Hos 2:14

“Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.”

“"Behold, I will mislead her" not from what is necessary and useful to life … but from the things that are shameful and harmful to the fulfillment of any enjoyment.… And as her ways are usefully hedged around with thorns so that she may not lay hold of her lovers, in the same manner she believes herself—now running downhill toward ruin and destruction—to be led astray by the mercy of God when she is brought to desire virtue. Having received the light of the knowledge of God in mind and heart, as I said, she is no longer able to find her old path.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.