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He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
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A Corrupt Alliance
John sees a woman (a corrupt religious system) riding a beast (a powerful world empire). Commentators widely identify this as a vision of an apostate church-state alliance. The woman doesn't have her own power but is supported and carried by the political might of the beast, which she, in turn, guides. This image represents a system that draws its strength from worldly power, not from God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
So he carried me away in the spirit. In vision. He seemed to himself to be carried away in this manner; or the scene which he is …
He carried me away (απηνεγκεν με). Second aorist active indicative of αποφερω, to bear away, prophetic aorist. This verb is used o…
19th Century
Anglican
So he carried. . . .—Better, And he carried me away into a wilderness in spirit: and I saw a woman sitting upon a wild beast o…
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John is carried in the Spirit (cf. 4:2; 21:10) into a “desert,” where he again sees ancient Babylon (Isaiah 14:23; [Reference Isaiah 21…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So he carried me away in the spirit Not in body, as if he was removed from the isle of Patmos to some other place; b…
Rome clearly appears to be meant in this chapter. Pagan Rome subdued and ruled with military power, not by artifice and flatteries. She generally l…
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