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This was very common among the Gentiles, which accounts for its being mentioned in the message sent from the conference at Jerusalem to the Gentiles, Acts 15: 20, 29; and its being so often
prohibited in the epistles. The word is sometimes used where 'adultery' is the sense. Matt. 5: 32; Matt. 19: 9. It often has in the
O.T. a symbolical reference to the turning from God to idols. 2 Chr. 21: 11, 13; Isa. 23: 17; Ezek. 16: 15, 26, 29; and in the N.T. to unfaithful intercourse with Babylon, the mother of harlots. Rev. 14: 8; Rev. 17: 2, 4; Rev. 18: 3, 9.