...Israel should be thus dispersed, separate, and preserved? By his prophet the Almighty answers — " When Israel was a child I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Thus we see the everlasting love wherewith God loved his ancient people — wherewith, through them,...

...forfeited their claim to favor by their abuse of kindness, than the following appeal and expostulation ? " When Israel was a child I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. I drew them with cords of a man, with bonds of love. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim, how shall I...

...destroyed XIII. Israel's ingratitude, and its punishment. Promise of restoration. — CH. xi. 1 — 11. 1 WHEN Israel was a child, I loved him, And called my son out of Egypt. ! But they turned away from those that called them ; They sacrificed to images of Baal ; They burned...

...fulfilled. But if we look for it in the Old Testament, we find it in the eleventh chapter of Hosea. " When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." Here, we all perceive, is no prophecy, but only an allusion to a historical fact, in which all the...

...belongs to a scries which ranks under the same category as the first. Thus, in Hos. 11: 1, the prophet says: "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my Son out of Egypt" Here now is no prediction, but merely and simply a historical declaration. Yet in Matt. 2: 15 it is...

...as the chosen people of God, Exodus iv. 22, " Israel is my son, my first-born " ; and Hosea xi. 1, " "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt"] peculiar favors ; would treat him as a father treats a son ; and they are to be understood in a similar...

...Exod. iv. 22; because the holy seed was preserved in them. So these words of the prophet, Hos. xi. 1, " When Israel was a child I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt," are applied by the evangelist unto the person of Christ, Matt. ii. 15. For although they were first...

...the chosen people of God. Sec Exodus iv. 22, " Israel is my son, my firstborn"; and Hosea xi. 1, " When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."] beheld," says St. John in his Gospel (i. 14), " his glory, glory like that of an only son from a father...

...the following passages of Scripture — " I called Abraham alone," 1 ie, ' when he was alone' — " When Israel was a child I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt."2 By a revelation of the Divine will, directly made to him, and understood, believed and obeyed...

...as the chosen people of God. See Exodus iv. 22, " Israel is my son, my firstborn"; and Hosea xi. 1, "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son ont of Egypt."] beheld," says St. John in his Gospel (i. 14), " his glory, glory like that of an only...