Hosea (Reformed Expository Commentary | REC)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The book of Hosea tells a simple, biographical tale that contains rich insight into the relationship between God and his people—the Israelites of the Bible and the Christians of today.
In this pastoral expository commentary, Richard Phillips walks readers through the story of Hosea verse by verse. God tells Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman named Gomer. Time after time, Gomer is unfaithful to her husband, but time after time Hosea shows her love and compassion. Their marriage illustrates God’s continuous forgiveness for the Israelites, who have turned to other gods and idols like an adulterous spouse.
Phillips’ in-depth commentary explores the powerful metaphor in Hosea with detail and clarity. The historical, biblical, and cultural information provided brings needed perspective for contemporary readers. Just as it served as a wake-up call to the Israelites, Hosea urges modern Christians to assess their own commitment to God.
- Includes verse-by-verse commentary
- Explores the powerful metaphor in Hosea with detail and clarity
- Urges modern Christians to assess their own commitment to God
It would be scandalous if a righteous king wooed a whore to be his wife, but it is even more shocking that God would love us. Yet this is the Lord’s message to Israel through Hosea. Rick Phillips’s exposition of this marvelous book is rooted in a careful study of the text, written with wonderful clarity and simplicity, and applied with sincere compassion for sinners.
—Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
The church today desperately needs orthodox resources for the study of Scripture, particularly when it comes to prophetic literature. Many commentaries overlook the message of the text, but not this present work. In it we see a commitment to understand and exposit the Word of God faithfully and practically. This commentary is a welcome addition to the study of Hosea, for both the student and the teacher of Scripture.
—Michael McKelvey, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson
These consistently admirable sermon-commentaries by Rick Phillips hardly need endorsing. They speak for themselves. Filled with insights and laden with heart-searching application, this volume does exactly what it needs to do: it provides us with an accurate assessment of the prophet’s message, then and now; it nourishes the soul with a portrayal of a ‘weighty’ God; it encourages readers to pursue with vigilance and joy the road set before us. Excellent is almost too light a word for this profound accomplishment. As we read this volume, Hosea comes to life and sits beside us.
—Derek W. H. Thomas, Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina
Preachers, teachers, and students of the Word will find here a valuable resource for understanding how the book of Hosea, despite all its difficulties and obscurities, nevertheless clearly heralds the unfailing love of God and anticipates the ultimate expression of that love in the cross of Jesus Christ. Phillips’s commentary is an apt tribute to his mentor James Montgomery Boice, who once called Hosea ‘the second greatest story in the Bible.’
—Stephen Coleman, Associate Academic Dean, Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages, Westminster Theological Seminary
- Title: Hosea
- Author: Richard D. Phillips
- Series: Reformed Expository Commentary
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 259
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Hosea › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781629958477, 9781629958484, 9781629958491, 1629958476, 1629958484, 1629958492
- Resource ID: LLS:REC28HO
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:44:19Z