Referents from Apocrypha for Chapter 17

17:4-5. “…decked with gold and precious stones and pearls….”

2 Esdras 15:47-55: “…woe to you, miserable wretch!  For you have made yourself like her; you have decked out your daughters in harlotry to please and glory in your lovers, who have always lusted after you.  You have imitated that hateful harlot in all her deeds and devices.”

 

17:6. “…the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus….”

2 Esdras 15:52-3  “…Would I have dealt with you so violently, says the Lord, if you had not always killed my chosen people exulting and clapping your hands and talking about their death when you were drunk?…”

 

17:16. “… the ten horns…shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire….”

(2 Esdras 15:51, 54).  “…You shall be weakened like a wretched woman who is beaten and wounded, so that you cannot receive your mighty lovers…. Trick out the beauty of your face!” 

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