호세아 2:9의 인용 해설

“Hurry, my beloved” [8:14]. Make me fly from the exile, my friend, Holy One. “Swift as a gazelle” [8:14]. This means that Israel is compared to a stag. A stag, even if it runs to the ends of the earth, it always comes back to the first city from which it started. We find a story about a king called Dekeltinus who hunted several stags and covered their horns with gold and sent them to distant lands that are called Africa. After thirteen years, the stags came back to the first city where the king had hunted them and he recognized them because of their gilded horns. Similarly, Israel is compared to the stags, who even now are dispersed in the exile, from one end of the world to the other. When the Messiah will come, we will again return to the first place, to Jerusalem, as the verse says, “I will go and return to my first place.”³⁰This “verse” is a conflation of Hosea 2:9 and 5:15. This means that I will go and will again return to my first city, Jerusalem. This should be soon, in our days, and let us say amen.

Therefore, behold I will allure her I will persuade her to be drawn after Me (losanjier in O.F., to flatter or cajole). Other editions read: atrayray in O.F. (attirerai). I will lure, attract. And what is the allurement? and lead her into the desert In exile, which is to her like a desert and a wasteland. And there she will lay up to her heart that it was better for her when she performed My will than when she rebelled against Me.