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Those tenne Kingdomes, which shall so grow together, by the * 1.1 government of the false Prophet their head, shall fight with the Lambe, yet at length the victory falling out on the part of our Lord the Lambe.
The Application. That battell hath beene fought long since, and even daily is in action: this victory even in some sort i•• ac∣complished; but we hope shall be fulfilled sometime much more gloriously.
For truely out of the same tenne hornes, or Kings they shall * 1.2 be, who at length shall hate the Whore, whom they have so long * 1.3 borne (which partly we perceive to be fulfilled) shall make her desolate, and naked, shall eate her flesh, and burne her with fire. For God by whose providence it cometh to passe, that with so mar∣vellous a consent they should grow together into this Beast of the last head, untill his appointed time: he even the same will sometime put into their hearts, that they shall execute his will al∣so upon their Metropolis the Whore: these things the Angel hath interpreted.
But what moreover is contained in the description of the pa∣rable, * 1.4 that this Whore held in her hand a golden Cup, full of abomi∣nations, and filthinesse of her fornication; likewise that she did * 1.5 beare her name written in her forehead: that needed not the inter∣pretation of the Angel. For truely in both there is an Allusion to the custome of whores, and stewes in time past. Which whores were wont to drink to their Paramores philters in a golded Cup: in the Stews the Cels had the name of the whores written upon them: even as that of Tertullian declareth in his booke De Pudi∣citia: under the very gates of lust, under the very titles of lust. But Seneca more perspicuously, Controvers. 2. lib. 1. Thou art called, saith he, a wh••re, thou stoodest in a common place, a title is put up∣on thy Cell. See also Martiall. lib. 11. Epig. 46. Moreover if a whore was famous, it seemeth she bare her name and title not onely written on her Cell, but in her forehead. Seneca intimateth that in the place cited: Thy name, saith he, hangeth in thy fore∣head, thou hast received the reward of adultery, and the hand that was to give sacred things to God, hath received rewards. To which I••venal also had respect, Sat. 6. concerning the unbridled lust of Messalina the Empresse.
—nuda papillis constitit auratis titulum mentita Lyciscae. She stood naked with her gilded pappes bearing the title of Lycisc••.
But if that of Seneca be to be taken of the front of her Cell, this also of Babylon may be so taken; neither wil it be harsh, for the na∣ture of the figure, which comprehendeth both, as wel the Whore, as the place or Brothelhouse in which she prostituteth her selfe.
Vers. 14.
Chap. 17.
Vers. 16.
Vers. 4.
Vers. 5.