REVELATION, XVIII. December 28.
with whom the kings of the is. And here is the mind earth have committed for- which hath wisdom. The nication, and the inhabit- seven heads are seven mounants of the earth have been tains, on which the woman made drunk with the wine sitteth. And there are seven of her fornication. So he car- kings: five are fallen, and one ried me away in the spirit is, and the other is not yet into the wilderness: and I come; and when he cometh, saw a woman sit upon a he must continue a short scarlet coloured beast, full of space. And the beast that names of blasphemy, having was, and is not, even he is seven heads and ten horns. the eighth, and is of the And the woman was arrayed seven, and goeth into perin purple and scarlet colour, dition. And the ten horns and decked with gold and which thou sawest are ten precious stones and pearls, kings, which have received having a golden cup in her no kingdom as yet; but rehand full of abominations ceive power as kings one and filthiness of her fornica- hour with the beast. These tion and upon her fore- have one mind, and shall head was a name written, give their power and strength MYSTERY, BABYLON unto the beast. These shall THE GREAT, THE MO- make war with the Lamb, THER OF HARLOTS and the Lamb shall overAND ABOMINATIONS come them: for he is Lord OF THE EARTH. And I of lords, and King of kings: saw the woman drunken with and they that are with him the blood of the saints, and are called, and chosen, and with the blood of the mar- faithful. And he saith unto tyrs of Jesus: and when I me, The waters which thou saw her, I wondered with sawest, where the whore sitgreat admiration. And the teth, are peoples, and mulangel said unto me, Where- titudes, and nations, and fore didst thou marvel? I tongues. And the ten horns will tell thee the mystery of which thou sawest upon the the woman, and of the beast beast, these shall hate the that carrieth her, which hath whore, and shall make her the seven heads and ten desolate and naked, and shall horns. The beast that thou eat her flesh, and burn her sawest was, and is not; and with fire. For God hath put shall ascend out of the bot- in their hearts to fulfil his tomless pit, and go into per- will, and to agree, and give dition: and they that dwell their kingdom unto the beast, on the earth shall wonder, until the words of God shall whose names were not writ- be fulfilled. And the woten in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet
man which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
December 28.
CHAPTER XVIII. December 28, Evening.
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