Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
BSB
ASV
But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
KJV
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Israel's covenant-breaking indicted, "like Adam" — a disputed but suggestive parallel
For the Word of God Himself tells us that He prefers the performance of His commandments to the offering of sacrifice. God proclaims this, Moses declares it to the people, Paul preaches it to the Gentiles. Do that which you understand is most profitable for the time. "I prefer mercy," it is said, "rather than sacrifice." Are they not, then, rather Christians in truth who condemn their own sin, than they who think to defend it? "The just is an accuser of himself in the beginning of his words."
There is something sacred and binding in a man's covenant (as the apostle shows, Gal. iii. 15 ), but much more in the covenant of God, which yet they made small account of; and there in that covenant they dealt treacherously, promised fair, but performed nothing.
But they like men - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, broke the covenant of God, eating the forbidden fruit, and then defended himself in his sin against God, casting the blame upon the woman: so these, in the good land which God had given them, “that they should” therein “keep His covenant and observe His laws” Psa 105:44, wantonly and petulantly broke that covenant; and then obstinately defended their sin.
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Not as Margin, "like Adam," Job 31:33. For the expression "covenant" is not found elsewhere applied to Adam's relation to God; though the thing seems implied (Ro 5:12-19). Israel "transgressed the covenant" of God as lightly as men break everyday compacts with their fellow men. there--in the northern kingdom, Israel.
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Job 31:33if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
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He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
“Tell me,” said Peter, “is this the price you and your husband got for the land?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is the price.”
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these…
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Genesis 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.