Holy Scripture
Hosea 7:6
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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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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.
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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.
5In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
— Hosea 7:6 —
7They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
8Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.