Hosea 2 Scofield
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2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
“She is not my wife”
That Israel is the wife of Jehovah Hos 2:16–23, now disowned but yet to be restored, is the clear teaching of the passages. This relationship is not to be confounded with that of the Church of Christ. (See Scofield "John 3:29"). In the mystery of the Divine tri-unity both are true. The N.T. speaks of the Church as a virgin espoused to one husband 2 Cor 11:1; 2 Cor 11:2 which could never be said of an adulterous wife, restored in grace. Israel is, then, to be the restored and forgiven wife of Jehovah, the Church the virgin wife of the Lamb; John 3:29; Rev 19:6–8. Israel Jehovah's earthly wife Hos 2:23, the Church the Lamb's heavenly bride, Rev 19:7.