Rev 17 | TSK | STEP | A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand sits upon the beast; which is great Babylon, the mother of all abominations. The interpretation of the seven heads; and the ten horns. The victory of the Lamb. The punishment of the whore. one. talked. I will. the great. that sitteth.

beast that thou.The Roman empire was the beast, or idolatrous persecuting power, when under the Pagan emperors; it ceased to be so when it became Christian; and became so again under the Roman pontiffs, and shall "go into perdition."

9:2; 11:7; 13:1-11

go.

11; 14:8-20; 16:1-18:24; 19:15-21; 20:10; Da 7:11,26; 11:45

2Th 2:3-8

shall wonder.

13:3,4

whose.

13:8; 20:12,15

from.

Mt 25:34; Joh 17:24; Ac 15:18; Eph 1:4; Tit 1:2; 1Pe 1:20

the beast that was.

13:1-4,11,12

here.

13:18; Da 12:4,8-10; Ho 14:9; Mt 13:11; 24:15

The seven.

3,7,18; 13:1

that was.

the ten.

12:3; 13:1; Da 2:40-43; 7:7,8,20,24; Zec 1:18-21

one.

Php 1:27; 2:2

shall.

17; Isa 10:5-7; Eze 38:10; Ac 4:28

shall make.

11:7; 8:6,7; 16:14; 19:15-21; Da 7:21,25; 11:9-12,24,25; Zec 2:8

Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4,5

the Lamb shall.

6:12-17; Ps 2:8,9; 21:8-12; 110:5; Jer 50:44; Da 2:44; 7:26,27

1Co 15:24

Lord.

1:5; 19:16; De 10:17; Ps 136:2,3; Pr 8:15,16; Da 2:47; 1Ti 6:15

and they.

14:1-4; 19:14; Ps 149:5-9; Jer 1:15,19; Mic 5:7-9; Joh 15:16

Ro 8:30; 8:37; 2Ti 2:4; Heb 3:1,2; 1Pe 2:9

and faithful.

2:10

The waters.

1; Ps 18:4; 65:7; 93:3-4; Isa 8:7,8; Jer 51:13,42,55

are.

10:11; 11:9; 13:7,8

the ten.

2,10,12

these.The ten horns, which the angel explained of "ten kings" or kingdoms, and which once exalted and supported her ecclesiastical tyranny, will hate, desolate, strip, and devour her. They will be the principal instruments in the destruction of popery and the ruin of Rome itself.

1,2,13; 16:12; Isa 13:17,18; Jer 50:41,42

and naked.

18:16,17; Eze 16:37-44; 23:45-49

eat.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; Da 7:5

and burn.

18:8,16; Le 21:9

God hath.

13; Ac 4:27,28

put.

Ezr 7:27; Ps 105:25; Pr 21:1; Jer 32:40; 2Th 2:10-12; Jas 1:13-17

to fulfil.

Lu 22:3,22,37; Joh 13:2,18

until.

6:11; 10:7; 15:1; Pr 19:21; Isa 45:17; 46:10,11; Jer 27:6,7

Eze 38:16,17; Da 12:7; Joh 10:35; 12:39,40; 19:24,28

the woman.

16:19; 18:2; Da 2:40,41; 7:23; Lu 2:1

which reigneth.The city which, at the time of the vision, "reigned over the kings of the earth," was undoubtedly Rome; and from its foundation, it has, in different ways, accomplished this object to the present time.

12:4