Hosea 8:12

I have written. Not Moses: he was only the pen. It was God who "spoke by the prophets" (Hebrews 1:1 ); by His Son (John 7:16 ; John 8:28 , John 8:46 , John 8:47 ; John 12:49 ; John 14:10 , John 14:24 ; John 17:8 ); by His Spirit (John 16:13 . Compare Hebrews 2:4 ); and by Paul, "the prisoner of Jesus Christ" (compare 2 Timothy 1:8 ). Note the reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:14 ; Exodus 24:4 , Exodus 24:7 ; Exodus 34:27 . Numbers 33:1 , Numbers 33:2 .Deuteronomy 4:6-8 , &c.) See App-47 and App-92 .

great = weighty. Compare Matthew 23:23 . Hebrew text reads ribbo = myriad; but rnarg. reads rubbey = multitudes, or manifold, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. My law. Not Moses's law.

counted = accounted.

as a strange thing = as something alien or foreign, as modern critics do to-day. This verse necessitates the accessibility of the law in a written form, and gives more than a clue to the date of the Pentateuch. See App-47 .