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#230 | Hosea, Jesus, and Resurrection: Why Death Could Never Have the Last Word
In this episode, we dig into Hosea 13:14 and its surprising afterlife in 1 Corinthians 15:54–57, where Paul turns an ancient oracle into a triumphant proclamation of resurrection hope.
Hosea 13:14 has a significant amount of ambiguity in its wording. In the Hebrew text, key verbs related to ransom and redemption—and even the tone of the passage itself—can be read either as a promise of deliverance from death, God's intentions towards Israel but their refusal to receive, or as a trash-talking taunt announcing death’s inevitability. The Masoretic Text and the Septuagint (LXX) preserve these…
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