 | John Cotton - 1642 - 200 sider
...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... | |
 | Miscellaneous correspondence - 1742 - 422 sider
...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... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 448 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - 1766 - 518 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1780 - 878 sider
...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... | |
 | 1795 - 76 sider
...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... | |
 | Arthur Dent - 1798 - 490 sider
...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,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1801 - 400 sider
...beajl that carried her are feven mountains on which the woman Jltteth, and the woman which thou fawejl is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, Rome is well known to be built upon fever* hills ; and at the time when this revelation wascommunicated... | |
 | Alexander Fraser - 1802 - 498 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Newton - 1803 - 490 sider
...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... | |
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For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. 
