 | John Cotton - 1642 - 200 pages
...the great city : Now that great city which is fpiritually called Sodome, and Tbefcwnth Vtd. Rev. US is that great city, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth, and that is Ronte, as all confeflej and that Babylon, Chap.ij.i 8. and this is the fame city, which... | |
 | Pierre Jurieu - 1687 - 628 pages
...i i.7th Chapter , where the City is called the Woman^ r* *' which fitteth on feven ^fountains; and that great City , which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth. This, fay they, is the City tf Rome , zndthePapifts themfelves do grant it, and without doubt 'tis Remt ,... | |
 | Miscellaneous correspondence - 1742 - 422 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...4jf,the beaft, and of his feven heads and ten b9r.f|p,iand his explanation of the myftery of the woman is that great city, which reigneth : over the kings of the earth. And what city at the time of the vifiqn reigned over the kings of the earth t but Rome ? She hath too... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1780 - 878 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1800 - 420 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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... these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 
