Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right… Here the prophet makes an application of his subject. I. THE IMPORT OF THIS QUESTION OF APPEAL. 1. Vain men would fain be wise. The question implies that the number of the wise and intelligent on these subjects was but small. And those who did not understand such things as the prophet had delivered did not deserve the name of wise and intelligent, however they might assume it to themselves. I. THE IMPORTANT DECLARATION. "The ways of the Lord are right." Need not prove this. It is a first principle in religion. It is now before us as matter of reflection. III. THE DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WAYS OF GOD WHICH ARE ENTERTAINED, AND THE DIFFERENT EFFECTS PRODUCED THEREBY. The righteous, being taught of God, have a proper and spiritual discernment of things. Transgressors, blinded by the god of the world, discern no spiritual objects in their proper colours. (S. Knight, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. |
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