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Amos 8:10

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10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Hosea 2:13

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13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

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Samaria, woman of

  

'The woman of Samaria' signifies the church which would be founded among the Gentiles.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 537)