NEW STUDIES IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY 2

Series editor: D. A. Carson

God’s Unfaithful Wife

A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

OF SPIRITUAL ADULTERY

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr

Apollos

InterVarsity Press

downers grove, illinois 60515

©1996 by Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

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The Scripture quotations marked rsv are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked nrsv are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Italics are added by the author.)

First published under the title Whoredom: God’s Unfaithful Wife in Biblical Theology in 1996; reprinted under the title God’s Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery in 2002.

USA ISBN: 978-0-8308-2614-8

UK ISBN: 978-0-85111-480-4

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