Babylon: Figurative

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Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
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Revelation 16:19
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
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Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show to you the judgment of the great whore that sits on many waters:
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Revelation 18:1
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
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Strong's Hebrew

1121. ben -- son
... name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including ... ite,
(anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec ...
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Figurative Senses have their Foundation in Literal Fact Besides ...
... the verities would not have been declared, out of which the figurative language
is ... the downfall of nations and cities, of Tyre and Egypt, and Babylon and Edom ...
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... class of expositors, the maiming of the body is figurative language, and ... branch of
the cedar [Jehoiachin, whom Nebuchadnezzar dethroned and carried to Babylon. ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

The First General Epistle of Peter
... and several later commentators and writers on Introduction (Bigg, Hart, Salmon,
Holtzmann, Zahn, Chase) regard the name Babylon as a figurative designation of ...
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In the Last Chapter we Confined Ourself to the Old Testament, in ...
... Babylon, must therefore be understood literally, otherwise we should have the anomaly
of ... represents the City, we learn that she is not literal, but figurative. ...
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The Seventh Rule of Tichonius.
... the context which, under the figure of the king of Babylon, are made ... understood where
another is expressed, which is the peculiarity of figurative diction; and ...
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Of the Reason Why Forty Generations (Not Including Christ Himself) ...
... to the uncircumcision, or, so to speak, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and to ... Thus was
God making preparations then in a figurative manner for things which were to ...
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A Paradox of Selling and Buying
... As in the Exodus from Egypt, so in that from Babylon, no ransom was paid ... But whatever
figurative elements may enter into it, its core is the ethical truth that ...
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Phial the First. On the Earth, the Universe Connected with the ...
... of the beast, crying out, that Rome was the apocalyptical Babylon, and that ... mystically,
and by analogy, and this likewise in the figurative representation of ...
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The First Epistle General of Peter
... that "sojourners of the Dispersion" must be taken in a figurative sense, meaning ...
phrase "elect of the Dispersion" must be compared with "in Babylon, elect" (v ...
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The Catholic Epistles.
... of this kind, should have used the word "sojourners" in a simply figurative sense,
to ... to chap.5:13 the place from which this epistle was written was Babylon. ...
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Subtopics

Babylon

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Babylon in the Old Testament

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Babylon was Called: Land of the Chaldeans

Babylon was Called: Sheshach

Babylon with Media and Persia Divided by Darius 120 Provinces

Babylon: A Type of Antichrist