Hosea
historical figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Old Testament prophet quoted on the Creator's rejection of Jewish ceremonial observances.
"And I will turn away all her joys and her feast days and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her ceremonies.
but when to Christ he gave the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for a possession, and that began to be discharged which was said through Hosea, "Not my people, my people, and she that has not obtained mercy, having obtained mercy" — namely the nation — then Christ extended toward all the law of the paternal benignity, excepting no one in commiseration, as none in vocation.
" That best one, lord of no Gehenna, who a little before had coerced the disciples, lest they should demand fire upon a most inhuman little village — when this one burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah with a fiery storm, when it was sung, "Fire shall go forth before him and shall consume his enemies," when too through Hosea he threatened, "I will send fire upon the cities of Judea," or through Isaiah, "A f …
Letters
Old Testament prophet through whom God's betrothal to Israel was proclaimed.
I betrothed her to myself in faith and incorruption, in righteousness, and in judgement, and in mercy and compassions, as I promised her also through Hosea the prophet.
Protrepticus
Hebrew prophet through whom the Holy Spirit is quoted describing God as establisher of thunder and creator of wind.
What does the Holy Spirit say to them through Hosea?
Stromata
Prophet whose creation-saying is paraphrased by Orpheus.
that through Hosea, "I am he that fixes fast the thunder and creates the wind, whose hands founded the host of heaven";
Adversus Judaeos
Prophet cited as foretelling the resurrection on the third day.
According to the prophecy of Hosea, sent forth in this manner:
De Pudicitia
Prophet commanded to marry a prostitute, cited as a test case.
Now you will pardon incests too, on account of Lot, and fornications joined with incest, on account of Judah, and shameful marriages from prostitution, on account of Hosea, and not only frequented ones, but even several at once, on account of our fathers.