Homilist Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave… Primarily, these words apply to God's restoration of Israel from Assyria — partially and in times yet future, fully from all the lands of their present long-continued dispersion and political death. 1. Here is the great conqueror called the "death and the grave." What a conqueror is death! (1) Heartless, dead to all appeals. (2) Resistless. Bulwarks, battalions, castles are nothing before him. (3) Universal, his eyes fastened on the world. (4) Ever active. 2. Here is the great conqueror of the world conquered. Who? "I am the resurrection and the life, whoso believeth in Me shall never die." How has He conquered death? Not by weakening his power or arresting his progress, for he is as mighty and active as ever, but by stripping him of his terror. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. |
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