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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
The beginning of the speech of the Lord (in Greek "Domini" and in the Vulgate "Domino") is in Hosea. LXX: "The beginning of the word of the Lord to Hosea." As we said above, they are preferred to other prophets in the title, Ozias, Joatham, Achaz, and Ezechias, to whom they prophesied while ruling. Therefore, he now says that among all these, the Lord spoke first in Hosea, and later to the others. But to speak of the Lord in Hosea is one thing, and to speak to Hosea is another. …
Bonaventure
Against conjugal chastity it is objected: every act and movement that alienates from God is foreign to virtue: but the act of conjugal continence is such: therefore it is foreign to virtue. Proof of the middle term: Hosea 1; the Gloss: "Just as wine intoxicates a man and alienates him from the state of his mind, so the law of marriage alienates a man from the things that are of God." To this it must be said that something is said to alienate from God in two ways: either simply, or with respect to some act or state. …
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