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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
14 we had a message announcing the fall of

Babylon. Babylon is a term which embraces

not only the Roman Catholic Church, but

religious bodies which have sprung from her,

bringing many of her errors and traditions

along with them.

A Moral Fall. — The fall of Babylon here

spoken of cannot be literal destruction; for

there are events to take place in Babylon after

her fall which utterly forbid this idea; as, for

instance, the people of God are there after her

fall, and are called out in order that they may

not receive of her plagues; and in these

plagues is embraced her literal destruction.

The fall is therefore a moral one; for the result

of it is that Babylon becomes the habitation of

devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a

cage of every unclean and hateful bird. These