| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 426 sayfa
...words of our fynonymy, SIGNS and FIGURES, moft oriental writings, and in particular the HolyScriptures, are found full of them. The woman in the Revelations,...that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth—a difcrimination that could agree only with Rome at that period, chap. xvij. verfe i8. This... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 sayfa
...Rev. 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... | |
| John Chappel Woodhouse - 1828 - 488 sayfa
...in which a woman, mounted on a scarlet-coloured beast, having seven heads and seven horns, is said to be " that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." This beyond doubt is Rome; and the whole of the prophetic description is applicable to the papal horn,... | |
| James Ussher - 1835 - 772 sayfa
...woman described unto us sitting upon seven mountains and upon many waters. The woman is there expounded to be ™that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. The seven mountain* upon which that city sate needed not to be expounded ; every child knew what was... | |
| George Pearson - 1835 - 482 sayfa
...mistake with regard to the application of this vision, " the woman," whom the prophet saw, is described to be " that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth2." The judgment of Babylon is described in the eighteenth chapter; and her fall and entire destruction... | |
| 1841 - 884 sayfa
...place her ten vassal kings, at all events he records her, on the authority of the interpreting angel, to be that GREAT CITY which reigneth over the kings of the earth. The harlot, then, apply the character as we may in the concrete, is a great city and no literal ieaman... | |
| Protestant association - 1839 - 664 sayfa
...bride. Nor is there any uncertainty in the application of the latter figure, for the harlot is declared to be that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth (v. 18), and to be seated upon seven hills (v. 9); a description which marks out the City of Rome as... | |
| 1843 - 612 sayfa
...those who agree in the Protestant interpretation of the woman sitting on seven mountains, and declared to be " that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth," will not shrink from applying the illustration, in connexion with the terms of the 5th verse of that... | |
| 1843 - 996 sayfa
...Israel, on their idolatry and rebellion against God. This woman is declared by the apostle to typify " that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth ; " a description which the Romish bishop Walmisley admits to be applicable to none but Rome. Dr. Walmisley,... | |
| American Protestant Association - 1844 - 410 sayfa
...Israel, on their idolatry and rebellion against God. This woman is declared by the apostle to lypify " that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth;" a description which the Romish bishop Walmisley admits to be applicable to none but Rome. Dr. Walmisley,... | |
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