Babylon = Rome (The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5, 1886)

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Sub-type: a historical fact (2nd-3rd cent.)
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "...Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city..." Revelation 14:8 "And the great city was divided into three parts ... and great Babylon came in remembrance before God..." Revelation 16:19 "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT... The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. ... And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Revelation 17:5,9,18 "...that great city Babylon, that mighty city! ..." Revelation 18:10 "...that great city Babylon..." Revelation 18:21

For he sees, when in the isle Patmos, a revelation of awful mysteries, which he recounts freely, and makes known to others. Tell me, blessed John, apostle and disciple of the Lord, what didst thou see and hear concerning Babylon? Arise, and speak; for it sent thee also into banishment.3 [...]
3 [Note this token, that, with all his prudence, he identifies "Babylon" with Rome.]
Hippolytus of Rome, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, sec. 36
(in Roberts, Alexander; James Donaldson, eds., The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: The Christian Literature Company, 1886, vol. 5, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix, p. 211).


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