{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6875","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Jerome</b>: \"For I am like a lioness of Ephraim, and like a lion's cub to the house of Judah.\" LXX: \"For I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion in the house of Judah.\" When they go to Assyria and send to the avenging or the revenger king, who will not be able to heal them; nor to undo the bound chain, I will show that with me opposing, all human help is vain: for I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Judah. For the lioness, which in Hebrew is called Sohel, the Seventy [translators] interpreted it as 'panther,' which is similarly said in Greek and in Latin, and both the name of the beast and every beast can be taken [in this sense]: so that you may recognize whatever is savage in the beasts, as existing in God's indignation. There is nothing swifter than the panther, nothing stronger than the lion: in the panther the swiftness of the destruction of the kingdom of Samaria is significant among the Assyrians; and in the lion, the strongest [beast], is shown their kingdom against Jerusalem and Judah somewhat later in time of the Chaldeans. And because she had said that she was both a lioness or panther, she maintains the metaphor and says:<br/><i>— Commentary on Hosea 5:14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"04911e2f3505d3c640d47f6f6607c3b874905d67c799ba100745c0fbd5f415d7","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6875,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f5de9846b67a4afd532c3aca56da14f5768b6b4a7b9d2a78cf4733fcb980a586","translator":null,"work":null}