So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
Those are the seven and eight of which Hosea says that with this number he bought and took to himself the fullness of faith, for you read, “And I went and bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for a core of barley and for a half core of barley and a measure of wine.” The Lord had told him previously to buy a harlot, and it is proof that he bought her, since he declares how much he paid. The fifteen pieces of silver consist of seven and eight.
