Allegory of the Unfaithful Wife The passage that will be discussed in this paper is “The Allegory of the Unfaithful Wife” found in Ezekiel 16:1-63 (New Oxford Annotated Bible). There are two allegories in this chapter. The first is the abandoned child in verses one through forty-three and the other is the three sisters in verses forty-four through sixty-three. The Greek translation of the word allegory means, “to speak other.” Allegory is a way of …showed first 75 words of 1930 total…

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