A novelist proposes that the Apocalypse is not 'linear' but rather 'spherical' or--perhaps--'layered.' The essayist here quoted shares that concept.
Thus, "Babylon" is not only Babylon, but perhaps Rome, then Vienna...
...In the eighteenth chapter of the Apocalypse, the apostle John paints a vivid image of “Babylon the great,” likely code for imperial Rome, a civilization vitiated by luxury, pride, deviance, and idolatry. It is worthy reading at this juncture. Do we not see upon the sacred page our own visage, as if in a mirror? “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies” (Apocalypse 18:3)....
Ask yourself "Am I captive by the waters of Babylon, with its riches, its idols, its fleshpots, its gods of gold and silver...?"
Mene mene tekel upharsin!
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That's a big Amen, good buddy.
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