The influence of Babylon is declared in this: that she has given all nations to drink of deadly wine-the wine alike of her sin and of her doom, of her fornication and of the wrath which will overtake it. She may yet erect her power in more imposing form but faith in that gospel which is the power of God, will cast her down along with everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Dante, Savanarola, Tauler, Luther, felt her to be so in the days when their eyes were enlightened but Babylon was not on the Euphrates alone: she has reared palaces on the Seine, and on the Thames, Tiber, and on the Bosphorus. John papal Rome was often Babylon to a later age.

Civil freedom follows the wake of religious freedom, for Babylon belongs not to one age. The principles of Christ’s gospel must undermine the world-power the fall of some Babylon principle has almost always succeeded the age of spiritual revival. The second angel follows on the first: the doom of the world-city, the metropolis of the empire of the world-power, follows the proclamation of the gospel. Better, And another, a second, angel followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has given all the nations to drink of, &c. The gospel angel is followed by the angel that proclaims the downfall of Babylon. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) And there followed.

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