Babylon the Great

Also known as: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH · Role: symbolic woman and great city · First appears: Revelation 17

Life events

• The ten horns turn against Babylon the Great, desolating and destroying her with fire.(Revelation 17)
  • With: the beast
  • “these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”
• The woman is revealed as the great city ruling over the kings of the earth.(Revelation 17)
  • “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 17

• with the beast (The woman is seated upon the beast.) “I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”
• with the beast (The beast carries the woman.) “I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.