back into Hosea’s time and tell Hosea that his words would be fulfilled in the boy Jesus and that, furthermore, this Jesus would be crucified and rise for God’s people, I am not sure if Hosea would have known what to make of it. But if Hosea were to go forward to Matthew’s day, it would be very different for him. There Hosea would be forced, in light of recent events, to see his words, precisely because they are inspired by God, the divine author, in the final eschatological context. It is Matthew