...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,...

...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,...

...image of a woman clothed in purple and scarlet, and drunk with the blood of the saints, Rev. ch. 17. where the force of the symbol, as pointing to a body...here is to be understood in the sense of community. In like manner, other communities or polities beside those which are sacred are denominated by the...

...written upon her forehead "Mystery, Babylon the Great :" and, ver. 18, it is explained to him, that "the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the "kings of the earth;" and, ver. 15, " the waters where the whore sitteth are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues...

...fulfilled. ' , CHAP. LXV. T7ERSE 18, and the last verse of this chapter; * And the woman which thou sawett, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. I have spoken of these tilings in this verse, in divers places before, so that I need not say any more...

...and to agree, and to give their kingo doms unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." The mystery, then, is explained by the angel, as far as it could be explained in the age of St. John,...

...will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Kev. xvii. 15—1s. they make—hauling and pulling every thingabout, breaking and destroying them...

...are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. When, therefore, it is said, verse eighteen, And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of THE EAIITH, she is spoken of as sitting upon many waters, no less than upon the beast ; and since there...

...in the present ! SERMON III. THE CITY OF ANTICHRIST. REV. xvii. 18. " The woman which thou sarvest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." THE city spoken of in these words is evidently Rome, which was then the seat of empire all over the...