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Recognition of the chronological priority of Hosea is linked in this same passage to the phrase of Hosea 1:2 תחלת דבר יהוה בהושע, ‘the beginning of Yahweh’s speaking’ and this is interpreted in a relative sense, i.e. amongst the contemporaries Hosea, Isaiah, Amos and Micah, it was to Hosea that the Lord first spoke (cf. Jerome on 1.2). Although the interpretation refers explicitly to the eighth century prophets, it is likely also to reflect the prior place accorded to Hosea in the quite different
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