Holy Scripture
Hosea 7:4
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“But where shall I find an approach to the divine Scripture that teaches me what "an oven" is? I must call upon Jesus my Lord, that he may make me the seeker find and may open to the one knocking, that I may find in Scriptures "the oven" where I can rightly bake my sacrifice that God may accept it. Indeed, I think I ha…”
Source: Septuagint
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4They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
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2that they may concert together as men singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.
3They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
— Hosea 7:4 —
5In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
6Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burned up as a flame of fire.