"Rehab—who as a type was a prostitute, but as a mystery is the Church—showed in her blood the future sign of Universal Salvation amid the world’s carnage; she does not refuse to unite herself with numerous fugitives, and is all the more chaste in the extent to which she is closely joined to the greater number of them; she is the immaculate virgin, without a wrinkle, uncontaminated in her modesty, plebeian in her love, a chaste whore, a barren widow, a fecund virgin."
In suo sanguine inter excidia mundi publicae futurum salutis insine Rehab illa, typo meretrix mysterio ecclesia, indicavit, quae multorum convenarum copulam non recusat et quo coniunctior pluribus eo castior, immaculata virgo, sine ruga, pudore integra, amore plebeia, casta meretrix, vidua sterilis, virgo fecunda. (In Lucam III:23)Ambrose goes on to clarify this daring metaphor, saying that the Church is a "chaste whore, since many lovers frequent her because of the attractions of love; yet she is free from the contamination of sin."
Casta meretrix, quia a pluribus amatoribus frequentatur cum dilectionis illecebra et sine conluvione delicti.... (In Lucam III:23)
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