1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Hosea 2:2 Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Your mother: the synagogue. (Calmet) --- He addresses Juda, (ver. 11, 15.) or all God's people, Osee 1:11. This vineyard yields no good fruit, Isaias 5. Idolatry prevails, Ezechiel 16:5., and 23:3.