The Wild Ass Alone: Untamed Rejection of God's Yoke
Scripture employs a striking figure in Hosea 8:9—the wild ass alone by itself—to depict the untamed soul refusing the easy yoke of Christ. Man's untamed...
This is historical examples on spiritual rebellion and consequences of independence from God, drawing on Ezekiel 8:9.
Scripture employs a striking figure in Hosea 8:9—the wild ass alone by itself—to depict the untamed soul refusing the easy yoke of Christ. Man's untamed spirit spurns the Redeemer's love, and no truer picture of the altogether intractable exists than this creature traversing the desert according to its own nature alone. Ephraim and the Ten Tribes are compared to the wild ass for three weighty reasons: First, they refused Christ's easy yoke.…
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