Commentary for Avodah Zarah 33:4
ורבנן [האי] מאתנן זונה מאי דרשי ביה כדרב חסדא דאמר רב חסדא כל זונה שנשכרת לבסוף היא שוכרת שנאמר (יחזקאל טז, לד) ובתתך אתנן ואתנן לא נתן לך [ותהי להפך]
And the rabbis, how do they expound on the words “the hire of a harlot”? Like R. Hisda, for R. Hisda said: Every harlot who allows herself to be hired will at the end have to hire, as it is said, “And in that you give hire, and no hire is given to you, thus you are reversed” (Ezekiel 16:34).
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
The rabbis do not read the verse as does the Christian in the story with R. Eliezer. So how do they read the somewhat strange words of the verse? They read them in accordance with yet another verse from Ezekiel. A woman who acts as a harlot and offers her body for money will in the end pay men to have sex with her. [I am not going to discuss here rabbinic views of prostitution. Too far off the topic, and quite frankly, too complicated in light of the modern world.].
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