❧The .xvij. Chapter.
3 The discription of the great whore, 8 her sinnes and punishment. 14 The victorie of the lambe.
[unspec A] 1 AND there came one of the seuē an∣gels, which had the seuen vials, & talked with me, saying vnto me: Come, I wyll shewe vnto thee the iudgement of the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters:
2 With whom haue committed fornica∣tion the kynges of the earth, and the in∣habiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication.
3 So he caryed me away in the spirite into the wildernesse: And I sawe a wo∣man sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast, ful of names of blasphemie, which had se∣uen heades, and ten hornes.
[unspec B] 4 And the woman was arayed in pur∣ple and scarlet colour, and decked with golde, precious stone, and pearles, and had a cup of golde in her hande, full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication.
5 And in her forehead was a name writ∣ten, a misterie, great Babylon, the mo∣ther of whoredome & abhominations of the earth.
6 And I sawe ye woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus: And when I sawe her, I wondred with great maruayle.
7 And the angell sayde vnto me: wher∣fore maruaylest thou? I wyll shewe thee the misterie of the woman, and of the beast that beareth her, which hath seuen heades, and ten hornes.
8 The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascende out of the bottom∣lesse pyt, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall won∣der (whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world) when they beholde the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is a mynde that hath wis∣dome. [unspec C] The seuen heades, are seuen mountaynes on whiche the woman sitteth: They are also seuen kynges.
10 Fyue are fallen, & one is, and another is not yet come: And whē he commeth, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, is euen the eyght, and is one of the seuen, and shall go into destruction.
12 And the ten hornes which thou sawest, are ten kynges, which haue receaued no kyngdome as yet: but shall receaue power as kynges at one houre with the beast.
13 These haue one mynde, and shal geue their power & strength vnto the beast.
14 These shall fyght with the lambe, and the lambe shall ouercome them: * 1.1 For he is Lorde of Lordes, and Kyng of Kynges, and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen, and faythfull.
15 And he sayde vnto me: The waters [unspec D] which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and folke, & nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beast, are they that shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate