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Healing Our Unsteadfastness
Commentators explain that God's promise to "heal their backsliding" is not just about forgiving specific sins, but about curing the root problem of spiritual unfaithfulness and inconsistency. Albert Barnes notes this heals the wound "from where every other evil came." This divine healing brings the steadfastness that we cannot achieve on our own, offering stability in our relationship with God.
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Albert Barnes
On Hosea 14:4
18th Century
Theologian
I will heal their backsliding - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickle…
Charles Ellicott
On Hosea 14:4
19th Century
Bishop
Heal ... Love. —If the foregoing is the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace…
Charles Spurgeon
On Hosea 14:4
19th Century
Preacher
I will heal their backsliding,—
"Nobody else can do it, but I can, and I will. I will not chide them any more, I will not keep them…
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John Calvin
On Hosea 14:4
16th Century
Theologian
God here confirms what we have observed concerning his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless. For as people are disposed to ente…
John Gill
On Hosea 14:4
17th Century
Pastor
I will heal their backslidings This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particular…
Matthew Henry
On Hosea 14:4–8
17th Century
Minister
Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, He loves freely���not because they dese…