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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 17:17

For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will ,.... By doing the preceding things to the whore of Rome, whose destruction is according to the will of God; it is his approving will, what he likes of, and will be well pleased with; it is his will of command, what he will order to be done, Revelation 18:6 and it is his determining will, his will of purpose, his decree, what he has resolved shall be done; he has fixed the time of her reign, and longer than that she shall not continue:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 17:18

And the woman which thou sawest ,.... Revelation 17:3 as there described, is that great city , often mentioned in this book; great Babylon, the city of Rome, Revelation 11:8 which reigneth over the kings of the earth; which then reigned in John's time over the kings of the earth; and this clearly points out the city of Rome, for there was no other city then, but that, which reigned over the kings of the earth; that was then the metropolis of the Roman empire, to which the whole world... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:1

And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters - That idolatrous worship is frequently represented in Scripture under the character of a whore or whoredom, is evident from numerous passages which it is unnecessary to quote. See 1 Chronicles 5:25 ; Ezekiel 16:1-63; 23:1-49, etc. The woman mentioned here is called a great whore, to denote her... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:2

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication - What an awful picture this is of the state of the religion of the world in subjection to this whore! Kings have committed spiritual fornication with her, and their subjects have drunk deep, dreadfully deep, into the doctrine of her abominable errors. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness - This wilderness into which the apostle was carried is the desolate state of the true Church of Christ, in one of the wings of the once mighty Roman empire. It was a truly awful sight, a terrible desert, a waste howling wilderness; for when he came hither he: - Saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns - No doubt can now be entertained that this woman is the Latin... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:4

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication - This strikingly represents the most pompous and costly manner in which the Latin Church has held forth to the nations the rites and ceremonies of its idolatrous and corrupt worship. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:5

And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and Abominations of the Earth - This inscription being written upon her forehead is intended to show that she is not ashamed of her doctrines, but publicly professes and glories in them before the nations: she has indeed a whore's forehead, she has refused to be ashamed. The inscription upon her forehead is exactly the portraiture of the Latin Church. This Church is, as Bishop Newton well expresses... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration - How exactly the cruelties exercised by the Latin Church against all it has denominated heretics correspond with this description, the reader need not be informed. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:7

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel! I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carried her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns - The apostle was greatly astonished, as well he might be, at the woman's being drunk with the blood of the saints, when the beast which carried her abounded with sacred appellations, such as holy, most holy, most Christian, sacred, most sacred. The angel undertakes to explain to St. John the vision which had excited... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition - The beast is the Latin kingdom; ( Ἡ Λατινη βασιλεια ); consequently the beast was, that is, was in existence previously to the time of St. John; (for Latinus was the first king of the Latins, and Numitor the last); is not now, because the Latin nation has ceased long ago to be an independent power, and is now under the dominion of the Romans; but shall ascend out of the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 17:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 17:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:8

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