Hosea 6 Footnotes

6:2 The expression “on the third day he will raise us up” is sometimes taken as evidence for a belief in the resurrection during the OT period and a prefiguring of Jesus’s resurrection on the third day. Although several OT passages witness to a belief in the resurrection of the dead (Jb 19:26; Ps 17:15; Is 26:19; Ezk 37:11-13), this verse should not be included in the list. It was, apparently, not Hosea’s own teaching but the shallow, complacent response of the people to his warning of judgment to come. This becomes clear from the Lord’s evaluation of their words: “Your love [hesed, faithfulness to the covenant] is like the morning mist and like the early dew that vanishes” (v. 4).