1 WHEN I would have
healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the
wickedness of Samaria: for they commit
falsehooda; and the thief cometh
in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I
remember all their wickedness: now their own adoings have
beset them about; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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1a the wickedness of Samaria: for they
commit falsehood The 'falsehood', the wickedness', of
Samaria/Ephraim/Israel is that of corruption of the worship of Jehovah. They
had turned the 'means' of the similitude of the calf sacrifice which
but represented in foreshadowing remembrance of the suffering sacrifice for
sin which the Messiah would perform into that actual worship of the calf
itself. They thus transformed it into the 'ends' of the worship, that is
the worshipping of the calf itself and not as it being but a similitude unto
remembrance of the Son of God to come. This is the 'falsehood' of wickedness
which was the iniquity of Ephraim. They robbed the worship from Jehovah and
turned it as an end in itself as but the worship of the calf, a molten calf,
an idol made by the hand of man.
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