George Leo Haydock, on Ezek 16:25

“At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.”

“Sign; altars of idols. (Haydock) — She makes no secret of her apostacy. The Greeks and Romans marked the houses of prostitutes, that honest men might avoid them. “The deemed the profession of such a crime a sufficient punishment to repress impure women.” (Tacitus, Annal.)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.