Paul, talking to the Corinthian Church, called them a virgin. A woman in the Bible is often a type or an allegory of a church. Wisdom is a type of Christ’s true church mingled wine and furnished table refer to the Spirit and Teachings of the true church that sits on the highest place in the city. The foolish woman is a type of Man-made religion. They go right on their ways, lives are not changed. This is one of the hells of the Bible, man-made religion.
The Lord calls Israel a comely and delicate woman. He calls Israel his wife, but He forsook her when they followed after other gods. His true love knows there is a place where the Lord feeds His flock that is not under the veil that covers His companions. Despite so many queens, concubines, and virgins (churches), His true love is but one.
The Church is subject to Christ, just as the wife is subject to the husband who loves her. Paul uses the freewoman as a type of the true church and the bondwoman as a type of those holding to the law. And there appeared a great wonder in the Kingdom of the Heavens: a church clothed with the gospel of peace and standing on the law and the prophets crowned with twelve apostles.
2Co 11:1-3 RV
(1) Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: nay indeed bear with me.
(2) For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
(3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
Pro 9:1-6 RV
(1) Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
(2) She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
(3) She hath sent forth her maidens, she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
(4) Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
(5) Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
(6) Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.
Pro 9:13-18 RV
(13) The foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
(14) And she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
(15) To call to them that pass by, who go right on their ways,
(16) Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
(17) Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
(18) But he knoweth not that the dead are there; that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Jer 6:2-3 KJV
(2) I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
(3) The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
The Lord calls Israel a comely and delicate woman.
Isa 54:1-8 RV
(1) Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
(2) Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
(3) For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
(4) Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
(5) For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
(6) For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.
(7) For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
(8) In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy redeemer.
The Lord calls Israel his wife, but He forsook her when they followed after other gods.
Son 1:7-10 RV
(7) Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest thy flock, where thou makest it to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions?
(8) If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
(9) I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
(10) Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, thy neck with strings of jewels
Son 6:8-9 RV
(8) There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
(9) My dove, my undefiled, is but one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Despite so many queens, concubines, and virgins (churches), His true love is but one.
Eph 5:22-27 RV
(22) Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
(23) For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
(24) But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
(26) that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
(27) that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
The Church is subject to Christ, just as the wife is subject to the husband who loves her.
Gal 4:22-31 KJV
(22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
(23) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
(24) Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
(25) For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
(26) But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
(27) For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
(28) Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
(29) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
(30) Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
(31) So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Rev 12:1-2 KJV
(1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
(2) And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
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