Chapter, Paragraph

 1 3,3 |         lesson of the power and love of God needed urgently to
 2 3,3 |         all His smiting was His love. Where this truth was not
 3 4,5 |        God to show his zeal and love. The opposition to them
 4 5,1 |       Ch. 11:1-11. The Father’s Love.~9 — Chs. 11:12-12:14. Israel
 5 5,1 |       Destruction.~11 — Ch. 14. Love Triumphant.~ ~
 6 5,2 |     Testament revelation of the love of God. This is the best
 7 5,2 |    before the revelation of His love. But spiritually Hosea gives
 8 5,4 |      her lover. Either in sheer love or at God’s command he did
 9 5,4 |        the Old Testament is the love of God more dearly and tenderly
10 5,4 |        unrequited and faithless love as Hosea did. Hosea, like
11 5,5 |       to God it means mercy and love, but it is always loyal
12 5,5 |          but it is always loyal love and covenanted mercies.~
13 5,5 |       shown Gomer chesed, loyal love, but he was not shown the
14 5,5 | immaterial whether we render by love, dutiful love (Cheyne),
15 5,5 |         render by love, dutiful love (Cheyne), loyal love (G.
16 5,5 |    dutiful love (Cheyne), loyal love (G. A. Smith), the meaning
17 5,5 |       the meaning is clear; the love of God to man will only
18 5,5 |        by the response of man’s love. R.S.V. renders steadfast
19 5,5 |        R.S.V. renders steadfast love.~ Hosea does not merely
20 5,5 |      merely use chesed of God’s love to man (2:19) and of the
21 5,5 |        to man (2:19) and of the love that God asks of man, he
22 5,5 |          he also uses it of the love He expects man to show his
23 5,7 |     Even as in Hosea’s own life love triumphed over sin and degradation,
24 5,7 |       the picture of Jeho­vah’s love triumphant over Israel’s
25 7,7 |   justly — Amos.~·           to love mercy, i.e. chesed (see
26 8,4 |   typical example of the Hebrew love for the concrete. The generalized
27 10,4|       sheds blood for the sheer love of conquering.~ 2. ver.
28 11,1|         who probably had little love for the priests, and so
29 16,1|           A. The Proof of God’s Love — Ch. 1:1-5.~ B. Obstacles
30 16,1|       to the Enjoyment of God’s Love — Ch. 1:6-3:12.~1 — Chs.
31 16,2|      His message concerns God’s love. In the difficulties of
32 16,2|        it was easy to doubt the love of God. “Malachi” is concerned
33 16,2|         there is proof of God’s love, that the enjoyment of that
34 16,2|      that the enjoyment of that love was being hindered by the
35 16,2|         the people, and how the love would reveal itself in the
36 16,3|              The Proof of God’s Love (1:2-5). ~ The supreme proof
37 16,3|      The supreme proof of God’s love to the Jew was His choice
38 16,3|         Testament, ch. VI.) the love of God in the Old Testament
39 16,3|         is, above all, election love. Since in old Hebrew there
40 16,3|    shades, not to elect, not to love, was to hate.~ ~
41 16,4|       to the Enjoyment of God’s Love (1:6-3:12). ~ The love of
42 16,4|        s Love (1:6-3:12). ~ The love of God, which made Israel
43 16,4|        these did not exist, the love of God could not be ex­perienced.
44 16,4|        a contradiction of God’s love, was specially shown in
45 16,4|         of God is a sign of His love and an accomplishing of
46 16,4|       to the enjoyment of God’s love is removed, the gifts of
47 16,4|       removed, the gifts of His love will be enjoyed as well.~ ~
48 18,0|         in them. But concerning love for one's neighbor, the
49 18,0|        I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved
50 18,0|         have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that
51 18,0|       exalted by the concept of love to the level of self-denial,
52 18,0|        level of self-denial, of love which is greater than the
53 18,0|       which is greater than the love one has for oneself~At the