Ezekiel — Chapter 23
The parable of two sisters, Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem), who play the harlot with the nations. Lapide acknowledges the passage's graphic language as deliberately shocking — following Origen and Jerome who saw the prophetic use of shocking imagery as a pastoral tool to break through spiritual complacency.
Verse 4
Oholah is Samaria, Oholibah is Jerusalem: Lapide reads the two sisters allegorically as the Synagogue and heresy, or as the Old Covenant and those who, having received greater grace in the New Covenant, prove more faithless.