![]() John’s day just what Babylon had been in the days of the prophets-“the hammer of the whole earth,” the “golden cup that made all the earth drunken” ( Jeremiah 50:23 Jeremiah 51:7 comp. And it is explained in the vision that Babylon is no longer the literal Babylon, but the power which has taken her place of pride and empire. John’s vision, Babylon, in her purple and her pomp, in her luxurious ness and her tyranny, takes her place. Against Babylon the voices of the prophets were lifted up ( Isaiah 21:9 Jeremiah 51:25) she seemed to them the embodiment of splendid vice and resistless power “the glory of kingdoms,” “the golden city,” “who exalted her throne above the stars of God,” “who sat as a lady given to pleasures, and flattering herself that she would see no sorrow.” In her greatness and her hostility to Jerusalem she became a type of later world-powers and, in St. Babylon was the great city, whose splendour dazzled, and whose power destroyed Jerusalem ( Isaiah 39:1-8 Isaiah 13:19 Isaiah 14:4 Isaiah 14:13-14 Isaiah 47:5-8). Before we go further, it is well to make sure of our ground. ![]() The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and they who inhabit the earth were made drunken (lost their reason and self-control) from the wine, the delicious and delirious draught of her fornication. One of the vial-bearing angels summons the seer, saying, Hither I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters (or, the many waters-comp. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) And there came.
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