Babylon = Rome (A ... Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers..., ser. 2, vol. 1)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: a historical fact (3rd-4th 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

[...] And Peter makes mention of Mark in his first epistle which they say that he wrote in Rome itself, as is indicated by him, when he calls the city, by a figure, Babylon, as he does in the following words: “The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.”
Eusebius, Church History, bk. 2, ch. 15
(in Philip Schaff; Henry Wace, eds., A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd ser., New York: the Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1890, vol. 1, Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine, p. 116).


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