Homiletic Review Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. The description is applicable — I. TO MEN WHOSE CONSCIENCES ARE THUS CONSTITUTED. Scrupulous in some things, they are frequently overscrupulous, and sometimes unscrupulous. The evil is aggravated when little things are its subjects, and when the weightier matters of .the law are omitted, or when others' sins and not our own are considered. II. TO THOSE WHOSE ZEAL IS PECULIAR. Like thorns under a pot, it smokes and crackles to-day and to-morrow is extinct. The religion of those who blaze forth with transcendent glow, for a time, and then disappear, is "a cake not turned." III. TO THOSE WHO CARRY THEIR RELIGION ONLY TO CERTAIN PLACES. To the sanctuary, the prayer-meeting, and the communion-table, but not into the family, the store, the bank, the senate. Or they may be outwardly consistent amidst home environments, but abroad, or at fashionable watering-places, they follow the multitude to do evil. (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.WEB: Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. |
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