REVELATION 17 - THE GREAT WOMAN WHORE
BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION
From the Albert BARNES Bible Commentary
And I saw a woman. EVIDENTLY THE SAME WHICH IS REFERRED TO IN VERSE 1.
SIT UPON A SCARLET-COLORED BEAST.….. THE WORD SCARLET PROPERLY DENOTES A BRIGHT RED COLOR - BRIGHTER THAN CRIMSON…..THE COLOR WAS OBTAIN FROM A SMALL INSECT WHICH WAS FOUND ADHERING TO THE ROOTS OF AN OAK FOUND IN SPAIN AND WESTERN ASIA. THIS WAS THE USUAL COLOR IN THE ROBES OF PRINCES, MILITARY CLOAKS ETC. IT IS APPLICABLE IN THE DESCRIPTION OF PAPAL ROME, BECAUSE THIS IS A FAVORITE COLOR THERE. THUS IT IS USED IN CHAPTER 12: 3, WHERE THE SAME POWER IS REPRESENTED UNDER THE IMAGE OF A “RED DRAGON.”…. IT IS REMARKABLE THAT NOTHING WOULD BETTER REPRESENT THE FAVORITE COLOR OF ROME THAN THIS. OR THE ACTUAL APPEARANCE OF THE POPE, THE CARDINALS, AND THE PRIESTS IN THEIR ROBES, ON SOME GREAT FESTIVE OCCASION. THOSE WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE DESCRIPTIONS GIVEN OF PAPAL ROME BY TRAVELLERS, AND THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED MUCH TIME IN ROME, WILL SEE AT ONCE THE PROPRIETY OF THIS DESCRIPTION ON THE SUPPOSITION THAT IT WAS INTENDED TO REFER TO THE PAPACY…..THIS IS THE COLOR OF THE DRESS OF THE CARDINALS— THEIR HATS, THEIR CLOAKS AND STOCKINGS BEING ALWAYS THIS COLOR. IT IS THE COLOR OF THE CARRIAGES OF THE CARDINALS, THE ENTIRE BODY OF THE CARRIAGE BEING SCARLET, AND THE TRAPPINGS OF THE HORSES THE SAME. ON OCCASION OF PUBLIC FESTIVALS AND PROCESSIONS, SCARLET IS SUSPENDED FROM THE WINDOWS OF HOUSES ALONG WHICH THE PROCESSION PASS. THE INNER COLOR OF THE CLOAK OF THE POPE IS SCARLET; HIS CARRIAGE IS SCARLET; THE CARPET ON WHICH HE TREADS IS SCARLET. A LARGE PART OF THE DRESS OF THE POPES BODY-GUARDS IS SCARLET, AND NO ONE CAN TAKE UP A PICTURE OF ROME WITHOUT SEEING THIS COLOR IS PREDOMINANT.
I LOOKED THROUGH A VOLUME OF ENGRAVINGS REPRESENTING THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS AND PUBLIC PERSONS OF ROME. THERE WERE FEW IN WHICH THE SCARLET COLOR WAS NOT FOUND AS CONSTITUTING SOME PART OF THEIR APPAREL.; IN NOT A FEW THE SCARLET COLOR PREVAILED ALMOST ENTIRELY. AND IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE SAME THOUGHT I INTRODUCE HERE AN EXTRACT FROM A FOREIGN NEWSPAPER COPIED INTO AN AMERICA NEWSPAPER OF FEB 4, 1851, AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE FACT THE SCARLET COLOR IS CHARACTERISTIC OF ROME, AND OF THE READINESS WITH WHICH IT IS REFERRED TO IN THAT RESPECT——
“CURIOUS COSTUMES: THE THREE NEW CARDINALS….. WERE PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC BY THE POPE’S NUNCIO. THEY WORE RED CAPS, RED STOCKINGS, BLACK ROMAN COATS LINED AND BOUND WITH RED, AND SMALL CLOAKS.”
I CONCLUDE, THEREFORE, THAT IF IT BE ADMITTED, THAT IT WAS INTENDED TO REPRESENT PAPAL ROME IN THE VISION, THE PRECISE DESCRIPTION WOULD HAVE BEEN ADOPTED WHICH IS FOUND HERE.
FULL OF THE NAMES OF BLASPHEMY. ALL COVERED OVER WITH BLASPHEMOUS TITLES AND NAMES. WHAT COULD MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBE PAPAL ROME THAN THIS? COMP. SOME OF THESE NAMES AND TITLES - NOTES ON 2 THES. 2: 4; 1 TIM. 4: 1-4; AND NOTES ON REV. 13: 1, 5. …..
AND THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET COLOR…… THE PURPLE COLOR WAS OBTAINED FROM A SPECIES OF SHELL FISH FOUND ON THE EAST COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, WHICH YIELDED A REDISH PURPLE DYE, MUCH PRIZED BY THE ANCIENTS. ROBES DYED IN THAT COLOR WERE COMMONLY WORE BY PERSONS OF RANK AND WEALTH—- MAR. 15: 17, 20; LUK. 16: 19.THE PURPLE COOR CONTAINS MORE BLUE THAN CRIMSON, THOUGH THE LIMITS ARE NOT VERY ACCURATELY DEFINED, AND THE WORDS ARE SOMETIMES INTERCHANGEABLE. THUS THE MOCK ROBE PUT ON THE SAVIOR IS CALLED IN MAR. 15: 17, 20 — PURPLE. AND IN MATT. 27: 28— CRIMSON.
ON THE APPLICABILITY OF THIS TO THE PAPACY SEE NOTES ON VERSE 3.
AND DECKED WITH GOLD. AFTER THE MANNER OF HARLOTS WITH RICH JEWELRY.
AND PRECIOUS STONES. SPARKLING DIAMONS ETC.
AND PEARS. ALSO A MUCH VALUDE FEMALE ORNAMENT.
HAVING A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND. AS IF TO ENTICE LOVERS.
FULL OF ABOMINATIONS. OF ABDOMINAL THINGS, OF THINGS FITTED TO EXSITE ABHORRENCE AND DISGUST; THINGS UNLAWFUL AND FORBIDDEN. THE WORD USED IN THE SCRIPTURE IS COMMONLY USED TO DENOTE THE IMPURITIES AND ABOMINATIONS OF IDOLATRY….. THE MEANING IS HERE, THAT IT SEEMS TO BE A CUP FILLED WITH WINE, BUT IT WAS IN FACT A CUP FULL OF ALL ABOMINABLE DRUGS, LEADING TO ALL KINDS OF CORRUPTIONS.
HOW MUCH IN ACCORDANCE THIS IS WITH THE FASCINATIONS OF THE PAPACY, IT IS NOT NECESSARY NOW TO SAY, AFTER THE AMPLE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SAME THING ALREADY FURNISHED IN THESE NOTES.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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