...the great city : Now that great city which is fpiritually called Sodome, and Tbefcwnth Vtd. Rev. US is that great city, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth, and that is Ronte, as all confeflej and that Babylon, Chap.ij.i 8. and this is the fame city, which...

...vote of a multitude, efpecially a multitude of (laves. — 1 8. " And the woman which thoa faweft, is that great " city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." This city muft be Rome, for no other rul'd over the kings of the earth in St Johns time ; not, to mention...

...unto the beafl ; and fl all make war -witli the Lamb t and ^ 18. And the woman which thou fa-weft, is that great city, -which reigneth over the kings of the earth. So that this beaft is plainly the Roman empire : and the woman that fitteth upon her, is the great...

...4jf,the beaft, and of his feven heads and ten b9r.f|p,iand his explanation of the myftery of the woman is that great city, which reigneth : over the kings of the earth. And what city at the time of the vifiqn reigned over the kings of the earth t but Rome ? She hath too...

...9, — 14. The feven heads, fays he, are feven mountains on which the woman fitlet h : and the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, ver. 18. Here the angel dire&s our attention to a city built on feven out both who he fliould be, and...

...we are ftrongly inclined to think will occur in 1796. Verfe 1 8. " And the woman which'thou faweft, is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The word " great" muft necefiarily refer to chap. xvii. ver. 5. This is confirmed by ver. 2, in the...

...apparent. Firjt, Therefore, I do thus reafon out of the Seventeenth chapter and laft verfe, * Babylon is that great, city which reigneth ' over the kings of the earth:' but there was no other city which did reign over the Kings of the earth when John wrote this book,...

...kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God jhall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou fawejt, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings...going on ftep by ftep before our eyes, I fubjoin the obfervations of Daubuzg, and of Bifhop Newtonh, the former publifhed 78, and the latter more than 32...

...ftill obferve this wholefome counfel. Ibid. troverfy, he adds, ver. 1 8. " The woman thou " fawefl is that great city which reigneth over " the kings of the earth j" a character applicable to Rome only, termed in the days of the Apoftle John, the Miftrefs of the...

...of the beaft, and of his feven heads and ten horns ; and his explanation of the myftery of the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. And what city at the time of the vilion reigned over the kings of the earth, but Rome ? She hath too...