She should have been a wife of purity, keeping her covenant vows with her Lord, but instead, she had gone away to consort with other gods and was playing the harlot against her first love.
You pass as in a drugged delirium Wrought strange upon the mind's distraction; You sing a blasphemous Te Deum To harlot virgins, and a fraction Of your fulginous colour passes, Stains my spirit's great conception As it dips into your glasses.
The attire of an harlot is too frequently in our day the attire of professors; a vile thing, and argueth much wantonness and vileness of affections.
Under such a disguise, who would expect to find 'the well-favoured harlot establishing a throne for Satan?
Wherefore it is said of Israel, "She feared not, but went and played theharlot also.
Thus was the harlot Rahab justify'd By works, when she the messengers did hide, And by another way their feet did guide.
The harlot commands him to eat and drink also: "It is the conformity of life, Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
The harlot halts outside the city of Erech with the enamoured Enkidu, while she relates to him the two dreams of the king, Gilgamish.
Now the harlot urges Enkidu to enter the beautiful city, to clothe himself like other men and to learn the ways of civilization.
The beast had only the powers of this world at his command; the harlot wielded the powers of another and a higher world.
It is Jerusalem after the elements of the harlot character have been wholly expelled, and the call of chap.
We lose sight of the bride amid the effulgence of heavenly glory and joy, and of the harlot amid the gloom and darkness of the smoke that 'rose up for ever and ever.
The harlot had counselled the beast, and the beast had given the harlot power, to execute the darkest deed which had stained the pages of human history.
It brings out more strongly the ideas of playing the harlot with "many lovers"[467] and of sinning for "hire.
There will again be a "beast" in the brute power of the ten kings of the world, and a harlot in a degenerate Jerusalem, animating and controlling it.
The harlot and Babylon are one; the bride and the heavenly Jerusalem are one.
The harlot had been always thus superior to the beast.
They sing first; and the burden of their song is Hallelujah, or Praise to God, because He has inflicted upon the harlot the due punishment of her sins and crimes.
Germanus had acted somewhat injudiciously in appointing a reclaimed harlot to be superior of a sisterhood after only thirteen months' probation; he now committed another indiscretion in allowing the strange monk ingress into the convent.
That harlot [at this time applied to men also] shall be met with, for that sermon.
And livid lamps where vypers spoon, As some bad harlot shrieks and cries Her Nature's sins unto three skulls, A shameless gnome bathes in hell's flood The thighs he filched from a gray tomb.
The fickle Babylonish harlot went fluttering off with that amount of bashful coyness, that the hairdresser once sent a bullet within an ace of the fellow who was working her backwards and forwards.
He would fain have sent one eye, at any rate, out of the face of the harlot of Babylon, but he could not manage that either.
In Hosea 1:2, 3, the command to the prophet to marry a harlot was probably received and executed in vision, and was intended only as symbolic: compare Jer.
But to be an ardent pickpocket or an eagerharlot would feel honester.
A fool has an equal chance with a philosopher: a harlot with a horse-thief: a nasty rag-picker with a small sweet child.
Side by side with the old harlot at the street corner anxious to sell herself, stands the old aboriginal male, whether covered or not with a veneer of civilisation, eager and desiring to buy.
The great harlot world had come to pooh-pooh--to scoff and laugh him out of his convictions, and no one knew better than he did what the mighty power and influence of the great civilized guffaw meant.
Of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.
Such sense of justice as they possessed would have infallibly driven the penitent boy back to the comradeship of harlots, and have refused the penitent harlot the barest chance of reformation.
One with less pity might have sent the harlot back to her shame, one with less love might have driven Peter into permanent apostasy.
That woman is called the harlot and the mother of harlots, and the apostasy, or defection from truth and righteousness.
Kossuth, Mazzini and other heroes of the Revolution are preparing the Harlot for Emperors and Kings, who are fulfilling the judgments which are announced in that verse.
You must keep in mind, that the Revelator saw the state in which the harlot was sitting on the Beast, that is, occupying the place of the Papal monarchy.
In the preceding treatise we quoted a prophecy in the 33d song of Purgatory in Dante's Divine comedy, in which the five hundred ten and five messenger of God strangles the harlot and the giant who sins with the harlot.
The admirable portrait of Clara, the successful adventuress, harlot and favoured daughter of the Church, is the chief gift received through this poem from Browning the artist.
They critically distinguished between the downfall of the purple pagan harlot and the untouched city of God.
It is well that the purple Babylon has fallen, the harlot who was drunk with the blood of nations.
In the same style of allusions grossly personal, he remarked, that "God justly punished Ahab, because he did not correct his idolatrous wife, the harlot Jezabel.
It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies; men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
Was it this Minerva, that was lately found playing the harlot in Collytus?
To find him a Juno the goddess of lust Bore thatharlot past shame, Aspasia by name.
But the statement that she was a harlot merely, does not entirely describe her character.
In a subsequent portion of the Apocalypse a vile harlot is taken as the representative of the church apostate.
The "abominations" are by no means confined to the mother in the Revelation, but are also to be found in abundance in connection with her harlot daughters.
The symbol of the church of Rome in chapter 17 is that of a corrupt prostitute, while the symbol of Protestantism is that of her harlot daughters.
The harlot with Babylon stamped on her brow, and the great city of fornication styled Babylon, in chapters 14 and 18, are one and the same existence.
Again, if this symbolic appearance of Christ is not his real appearance, how can we tell that there is any reality in the appearance of the horsemen of the first four seals, the ten-horned beast, or the harlot woman?
A disgusting, polluted harlot may be the proper symbol of an apostate church, but of the pure, holy church of God--never.
A pure, chaste virgin is used to symbolize the true church of God; whereas a corrupt harlot is chosen to represent an apostate church, and fornication her idolatrous worship.
