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Chapter See Chap. xx. 7,
A Commentary
8. It has been already obferved
XXIII. that Idolatry is often reprefented as fpiritual A.dul-
{yV^J teiy. See Chip.' xvi. V5, kc.
Ibid. They committed Whoredoms- in their TouthJ]
The time when the Israelites were in Egyp, or
*vc\-2 lately de-parted- out of it, is called their Touth
in the Prophets, becai.fe that was the time when
See Ver. 8,
1
God firft owned them for his People. ,
19. Chap. xvi. 8, 22, 60. Jerem. ii. 2. Ifof. ii. 15.
Ibid. There were their Breafts frejfed, &c]
There they ferv/d. Idols, and there 'they corruped
their Ways', as the CBaldee Ta'raphraJ? exprefTes
the Senfe. The Scripture commonly calls Idolatrous
Churches and Nations by the Name of Har-
lots i and in like manner honours thofe who pre-
ferve their Allegiance to God pure and undefiled,
with the Title of Chaft Wives or Virgins. See
Ver. 4«
2 Or.xi. a. Revel, xix. 7. xxi. 2. xiv. 4.
Ver. 4- ^An^ ^je Names of them were aAholah
the Elder, and oAhalibah
' her
S'tfler,-— Samaria is
eAholah, and Jerufalem oAholilah.J The Word
cAholah fignifies, Her Tent ox Tabernacle: