 | Miscellaneous correspondence - 1742 - 422 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God lhall be fulfilled, 18 And the woman which thou faweft, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. • It was not thought fufficient to reprefent thefe things only in vifion ; and therefore the angel,... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1780 - 878 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 pàgines
...xvii. 18, the woman feated on the fcarlet-coloured beaft is faid to be Revealed Religion . 427 be " that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." And Rome was then the feat of almoft univerfal empire. It is alfo faid (Rev. xvii. 9), that the " feven... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1800 - 420 pàgines
...kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God jhall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou fawejt, is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. To this Prophecy, the completion of which is fo manifeftly going on ftep by ftep before our eyes, I... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1801 - 400 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
