has been a perennial subject of JL discussion amongst scholars, and the problems surrounding it are such that it is improbable that agreement will ever be reached. Jerome commenced the preface of his commentary on the book of Hosea by saying : " If we have need of the help of the Holy Spirit in the interpretation of all the prophets. .. how much more, when we come to the interpretation of the prophet Hosea, should we pray to the Lord and say with Peter : ' Explain unto us this parable'." 2 Ewald observed that " at first
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