Spoke 6

Isaiah 28 - Vav - The Pride of Ephraim

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28 (vs. 20)
Spoke 6, Cycle 2

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

Book 28 (Hosea 5.5)

The set (Pride, Ephraim) ^[Verify] forms a near KeyLink between Isaiah 28 and Hosea (quoted above) with only one other verse containing these words. It is particularly intriguing to find the link based on the name Ephraim, since the distribution of this name is greatly maximized on Spoke Six (cf. Ephraim), with the greatest density appearing in Book 28 (Hosea) corresponding to Isaiah 28. The fact that this is not an actual KeyLink is not significant - the KeyLinks are merely the extreme case of a word distribution that two passages have in common.

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