The color “scarlet” is named most often in the Bible in connection with the tabernacle curtains and the garments of the High Priest.
It’s also, of course, the color of the whore of Revelation.
That means: Only a people already clothed in scarlet can become a prostitute clothed in scarlet. Only Bride Israel gets divorced.
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