Revelation 18

Revelation 18:2

Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

The Mystical Babylon, the great city and state, is fallen and utterly ruined; and is become a desert habitation of devils, a place haunted with unclean spirits, and a desolate wilderness, for screech-owls and other ominous birds to abide in.

Revelation 18:3

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

For she hath poisoned all nations, with the infections of her spiritual fornications; and hath, thereupon, drawn them into the partnership of her judgments: and the kings of the earth have been seduced by her, to her palpable idolatries; and the merchants of the earth, both spiritual and temporal, are

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

And I heard another voice from heaven, charging all that wish well to their souls, to depart from the superstitions and abominations of that city and state; and warning them to avoid the partaking of her sins, upon pain of partaking of her plagues.

Revelation 18:7

For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

For she saith in the pride of her heart, as that type of her the old Chaldean Babylon did, Isaiah xlvii. 8, I sit as a queen over all the earth: I am not as a solitary widow, but am full of lovers: the great princes of the world are glad to court me, with their best observances; neither is it possible that I should fail and miscarry of my greatness, or be in any danger of distress.

Revelation 18:9

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, &c.

And those kings and princes of the earth, which have been drawn into the partnership of her idolatries, shall bewail her, &c.

Revelation 18:11

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for &c.

And those spiritual and temporal merchants, which were wont to enrich themselves with the costly wares, appertaining to her glorious superstitions, shall weep and mourn; for &c. So verses 12 and 13 &c.

Revelation 18:21

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

And a mighty angel, to represent unto me the irrecoverableness of this Mystical Babylon, took up a great stone, like a millstone, and cast it into the sea; saying, Look how impossible it is, that this weighty stone thus violently cast into the sea should rise up from the bottom thereof again; so impossible is it, that this Babylon, thus dejected by the just hand of God, should ever recover itself from this final confusion.

Revelation 18:23

For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Those, that traded in thy spiritual merchandises, were great and mighty men, and heaped up very great treasures by that traffic of theirs; for, by the enchantments of thy false doctrines and idolatries were all nations deceived. VOL. IV. Q q

Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

For she is found full of blood and cruelty; as being guilty of the effusion of the blood of God’s faithful Prophets and Apostles, and of all his Saints and holy Martyrs upon earth.