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And vpon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots, And Abominations Of The Earth.

1611 marginal noteOr, fornications.

The beast that thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit, and goe into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names were not written in the booke of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

And the woman which thou sawest, is that great Citie which reigneth ouer the kings of the earth.

¶ And after these things, I saw another Angel come downe from heauen, hauing great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.

For all nations haue drunke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, & the Merchants of the earth are waxed rich thorow the abundance of her delicacies.

1611 marginal noteOr, power.

And the Kings of the earth, who haue committed fornication, and liued deliciously with her, shall bewaile her and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:

And the Merchants of the earth shall weepe and mourne ouer her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more.

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegrome and of the bride shalbe heard no more at all in thee: for thy Merchants were the great men of the earth: for by thy sorceries were all nations deceiued.

And in her was found the blood of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that were slaine vpon the earth.

For true and righteous are his iudgements, for hee hath iudged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of his seruants at her hand.