The interpretation timeline

Hos 2:5

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Hos 2:5 · Douay-Rheims
“For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“Who is that adulterous woman whom the prophet Hosea points out, who said, "I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, and everything that befits me"? Let us grant that we may understand this also of the people of the Jews who went astray. Yet who else are false Christians (such as are all heretics and schismatics) prone to imitate, except false Israelites?”
Source
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“"And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, but she shall not find them. Then shall she say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then it was better with me than now.' " Then he adds something, in order that they may not attribute to their seducers what they have that is sound and derived from the doctrine of truth, by which they lead them astray to the falseness of their own dogmas and dissensions. And in order that they may not think that what is sound in them belongs to them, he immediately added, "And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oil, and multiplied her money; but she made vessels of gold and silver for Baal."”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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