Hosea's Life Shows the Relationship Between Doctrine and Practice

Abstract

Meyer answers some of the difficult questions in Hosea in this essay: “Why did the LORD graciously give us this account? To many commentators the book of Hosea brings up more questions than it answers. Some find great difficulty with the LORD’s command to his called servant. Apart from finding solace in the fact that God’s command to Hosea to take to himself an adulterous wife is not a prescriptive command for us, what can we take away from it? How can this bizarre relationship have any relationship to the marriage of doctrine and practice?”