Bible Dictionary: Adultery: Figurative

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Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where you have not been lien with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitutions and with your wickedness.
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Ezekiel 16:15,16
But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
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Hosea 1:1
The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
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Library

On Christian Doctrine In Four Books.
... Wrong. Chapter 15.--Rule for Interpreting Figurative Expressions. ... Chapter
21.--David Not Lustful, Though He Fell into Adultery. Chapter ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /

Letter clxxx. (AD 416. )
... God can justly bestow souls on the offspring of persons guilty of adultery?" does
not ... your ingenuity; but I am by no means of opinion that a figurative mode of ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter clxxx a d 416.htm

On Christian Doctrine. Index of Subjects.
... David, not lustful though he fell into adultery, [1933]565. ... Figurative expressions
not to be taken literally, [1947]559; how to discern whether a phrase is ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /on christian doctrine index of.htm

Whether the New Law Fulfils the Old?
... This is clear in the case of murder and adultery, the prohibition of which the ... above
([2147]Q[103], AA[3],4). Now the latter were figurative of something to ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the new law fulfils.htm

Faustus Rejects the Old Testament Because it Leaves no Room for ...
... But thou art deceived by evil spirits which commit adultery with thee, that ... Such
expressions are sometimes used as figurative descriptions of the abundance of ...
/.../faustus rejects the old testament.htm

Of the Parables of the Lost Ewe and the Lost Drachma.
... your cups come forward to show whether even in them the figurative meaning of ... as
can be restored, through repentance, from the crime of adultery and fornication ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on modesty/chapter vii of the parables of.htm

On the Journey to Jerusalem - Departure from Ephraim by Way of ...
... which confines dissolution of marriage to the one ground (of adultery), because
then ... the addition of the words in public' ({hebrew}) marks its figurative use. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxii on the journey.htm

CHAPTER III.
... continuing during the marriage, and notwithstanding the continued adultery, unless
we ... considered as an appendix, in which, without any figurative covering, the ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chapter iii.htm

But if no Authority for Lying Can be Alleged...
... lie which is received to have been done or said in a figurative sense, or ... the flesh;
what if by our committing theft, what if by committing adultery, a person ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on lying/section 9 but if no.htm

Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power ...
... If the apostles understood these (figurative meanings of the Law) better, of course ...
the repentant the pardon of murder, and therewith of adultery, inasmuch as ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter xxi of the difference between.htm

Subtopics

Adultery

Adultery: Absalom

Adultery: Amnon

Adultery: Corinthians

Adultery: David

Adultery: Figurative

Adultery: Forbidden

Adultery: Forgiveness of--Instances of

Adultery: General Scriptures Concerning

Adultery: Gilead

Adultery: Heathen