...with the express assurance to St. John, by the interpreting Angel, that " the Woman" whom he saw, " is that great " City, which reigneth over the kings of the " Earth" The Beast, which carried the Woman, is the secular Empire; and the Woman herself, (the mystical BABYLON,)...

...kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. THE FIFTH VISION OF ST. JOHN. HK PALL OF BABYLON AND THE MARRIAGE OF THK LAMB. SECTION I. The Fall...

...on which the woman (the mother of harlots) sitteth ; and the ten horns are ten kings; and the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth," Rev. xvii. It appears, therefore, that Rome did not continue Christian, but relapsed into idolatry,...

...verse 5 ? The answer is contained in that same chapter, verse 18 : " And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." There is no possibility of avoiding Rome as the only possible interpretation of these words : for she...

...texture ? Yet, when we are informed, in the very chapter which contains the description, that " the woman is that great city ' which reigneth over the kings of ' the earth/' — and when we know that no city, excepting ROME, ever has ruled the nations from the days of John...

...on which the woman (the mother of harlots) sittclh ; and the ten horns are ten kings ; and the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth," Rev. xvii. It appears, therefore, that Rome did not continue Christian, but relapsed into idolatry,...

...kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18. " And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The thirteenth chapter represented the roman ecclesiastical beast in his course of wickedness, instigated...

...instruments in the destruction of popery, and the ruin of Rome itself.* "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The city which, at the time of the vision, ' reigned over the kings of the earth,' was undoubtedly...

...instruments in the destruction of popery, and the ruin of Rome itself.* " And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The city which, at the time of the vision, 'reigned over the kings of the earth,' was undoubtedly Rome...

...body politic, is expressly defined by the interpreting angel ; — " And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth ;" ^City' here is to be understood in the sense of community. In like manner, other communities or...