Lectures On the Apocalypse: Critical, Expository, And Practical : Delivered ...
Lectures On the Apocalypse: Critical, Expository, And Practical : Delivered ...
Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885
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The word, you will remember, which is used for harlot by St. John in the Apocalypse is nopvri s . And this same word (nopvr}\ or its derivatives, is used in the passages just quoted, and is employed, in the Septuagint Version of the Prophets of the Old Testament, at least fifty times 4 , to describe the spiri- tual fornication of the Churches of Israel and Judah; and so Samaria herself, which Bossuet specifies as the proper parallel, is charged with harlotry. Therefore, the word harlot does des...ignate a Church; and if the Church of Rome is described by that name in the Apocalypse, then the word harlot, as applied to her, indicates the multitude of her sins \ 2. To consider Bossuet's second objection; — We readily allow that a faithless Church might be called 1 Jer. iii. 1. * Hosea iv. 15. * The Hebrew 71^ ?» which is always rendered Harlot by our Translators ; as /1BN j is adulteress, r t 4 e. g. Ezek. zvi. 15. 22. 33. 35. xxiii. 7, 8. 11. 14. 17, 18, 19. 29. 35. 43. 45. xliii. 7. 9.
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