Lux Domini
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

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Interpretation

God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone.

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This thought runs through Hosea 9:15-17.

Glossary

Gilgal Place
Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Khirbet el Mefjir.