Vulgar words in Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 (Page 1)
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Tyre is to resume her trade of whoring, and is to carry it on to a wide extent, and with great success.
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15 ff., Tyre is, on account of her mercantile connections, called a whore, and the profit from trade is designated as the reward of whoredom.
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_Vitringa_, who remarks that the Prophet was fully aware of "the great interval of time that would intervene betwixt the restoration of Tyre, and her dedication of herself, with her gains, to the Lord," is right, while _Drechsler_, who is of opinion that the doings of consecrated Tyre also are represented under the image of whoring, is wrong.
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Whoring designates a sinful conversation which is irreconcilable with conversion to the Lord.
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("_Thou hast scattered thy ways_, _i.e._, thou hast been running about to various places after the manner of an impudent whore seeking lovers"--_Schmid_; compare ver.
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15, for instance, it is said: "And they go a whoring after their gods,"--instead of the congregation, to which the _whoring_ properly belongs, (comp.