Originally Posted by k.seymore

hehe. I just read through the beginning of Calvin's commentary on Hosea and I love how when scripture says, "'Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.' So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son." Calvin says this couldn't have possibly happened, what these verses actually mean is that Hosea went before the people and "he laid before them masses of figs." Wow! If that is what taking a whore for a wife means, then I myself have committed handfuls of whoremongering adultery in my days. And the fornication tasted delicious, both in fruit form and wrapped in a Newton.