THE

MINOR PROPHETS,

WITH A

COMMENTARY

EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL

AND

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE SEVERAL BOOKS.

BY

THE REV. E. B. PUSEY, D. D.

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HEBREW, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH.

VOL. I.

HOSEA, JOEL, AMOS, OBADIAH AND JONAH.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.-Ps. cxix. 18.

NEW YORK:

FUNK & WAGNALLS, PUBLISHERS,

10 AND 12 DEY STREET,

1885.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

I. HOSEA.

Order of the Twelve. Length of Hosea's ministry. State of Israel. His own

personal circumstances, a picture of the love of God. Order of his book. His

mournful love for his people. References to the Pentateuch,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.-XIV.

II. JOEL.

pp. 9-17

pp. 19-142

INTRODUCTION.

His office exclusively for Judah. Quoted by Amos and Isaiah. No other dates

as to his period. The locusts which he foretells symbols of conquerors from

the North. Beauty of his style and his tenderness. Extent of his predictions, pp. 143-157

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS 1.-III.

pp. 159-221

III. AMOS.

INTRODUCTION.

His early life and birthplace, Tekoah. His prophecies at Samaria, for a

period in the later part of the reign of Jeroboam II.; joined his prophecy to

Joel's. His descriptions of God's power over nature from his shepherd-life:

his simple eloquence: no variation of dialect: evidence of the retention of the

law in Israel. Distinctness of his prophecies. Prophecy that the heathen

should be converted, when the family of David should be fallen,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.-IX.

IV. OBADIAH.

· pp. 223-232

pp. 233-341

INTRODUCTION.

Dates, assigned by German critics from internal evidence, vary 600 years.

Prophesied earlier than Jeremiah: internal proof: external, from comparison

with Jeremiah: but since earlier, much earlier: uses language of Hosea,

Amos, Balaam, but no later prophet. His style. Answers to Ewald's

assumption,

COMMENTARY,

INTRODUCTION.

V. JONAH.

His date-variations of German critics-grounds of it: the use of the 3d or 1st

persons by the prophets, when speaking of themselves: arguments from lan-

guage; graphicalness: his hymn: his description of Nineveh, ground of his

unwillingness to proceed to Nineveh. The miracles and the authority of our

Lord. The fish: the ricinus: Heathen fables,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS L.-IV.

. pp. 371-394

. pp. 395-427

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