because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
⛓ Read Nahum 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Nineveh, 'the well-favored harlot, mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotry' — the harlot-imperial-city betraying nations by her seductions; reinforces the wine-of-fornication-intoxicates-the-nations motif. Hays: thematic coherence, recurrence of harlot-city topos.
High confidenceNineveh 'the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her whoredom and families through her sorceries' — direct source for 'with your sorcery (pharmakeia) all the nations were deceived' (v.23). The harlot-city + sorcery + deceiving nations cluster matches closely.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Nineveh 'the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her whoredom' — the harlot-city seducing nations parallels Babylon's fornication with the kings (cf. also v.23 sorcery). Figural correspondence; contested as direct source.
Medium confidence