Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text:  none Quote: [...] By a similar usage Babylon also in our (St.) John is a figure of the city of Rome, as being like (Babylon) great and proud in royal power, and warring down the saints of God. [...] Tertullian, Against Marcion, in five books , bk. 3, ch. 13. Roberts, Alexander; Donaldson, James, The Ante-Nicene fathers; translations of the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325 , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918, vol. 3 - Latin Christianity: Its founder, Tertullian: 1. Apologetic; 2. Anti-Marcion; 3. Ethical, p. 332 . Online Source:   https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather03robe Book Images:

Text:  none Quote: [...] So, again, Babylon, in our own John, is a figure of the city Rome, as being equally great and proud of her sway, and triumphant over the saints. [...] Tertullian, An answer to the Jews , ch. 9. Roberts, Alexander; Donaldson, James, The Ante-Nicene fathers; translations of the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325 , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918, vol. 3 - Latin Christianity: Its founder, Tertullian: 1. Apologetic; 2. Anti-Marcion; 3. Ethical, p. 162 . Online Source:   https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather03robe Book Images:

Text:  none Quote: [...] Therefore in the trumpets and phials is signified either the desolation of the plagues that are sent upon the earth, or the madness of Antichrist himself, or the cutting off of the peoples, or the diversity of the plagues, or the hope in the kingdom of the saints, or the ruin of states, or the great overthrow of Babylon, that is, the Roman state. Victorinus, Commentary on the Apocalypse of the blessed John , ch. 7, vs. 2. Roberts, Alexander; Donaldson, James, The Ante-Nicene fathers; translations of the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325 , Buffalo: The Christian Literature Company, 1886, vol. 7 - Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies, p. 352 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/antenicenefather07robeuoft Book Images:

Text:  "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. ... And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." Revelation 17:3-5,9 Quote: 12. Read the apocalypse of John, and consider what is sung therein of the woman arrayed in purple, and of the blasphemy written upon her brow, of the seven mountains, of the many waters, and of the end of Babylon. [...] It is true that Rome has a holy church, trophies of apostles and martyrs, [...] Jerome, Letters , ltr. 46 - Pa...

Text: none Quote: [...] Peter also mentions this Mark in his first epistle, figuratively indicating Rome under the name of Babylon "She who is in Babylon elect together with you saluteth you and so doth Mark my son." [...] Jerome & Gennadius, Lives of illustrious men , ch. 8. Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church , 2nd ser., New York: The Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1892, vol. 3 - Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, Rufinus: Historical Writings, etc., p. 364 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/selectlibraryofn18903scha Book Images:

Text: none Quote: [...] And Peter makes mention of Mark in his first epistle which they say that he wrote in Rome itself, as is indicated by him, when he calls the city, by a figure, Babylon, as he does in the following words: "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son." Eusebius, Church History , bk. 2, ch. 15, 2. Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church , 2nd ser., New York: The Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1890, vol. 1 - Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine, p. 116 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/selectlibraryofn18901scha Book Images:

Text:  none Quote: [...] when Abraham was born, which was about the 1200th year before Rome was founded, as it were another Babylon in the west. The City of God , bk. 16, ch. 17. Schaff, Philip, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church , 1st ser., Buffalo: The Christian Literature Company, 1887, vol. 2 - St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine.,  p. 321 . [...] that it may appear how Babylon, like a first Rome, ran its course [...] [...] where Rome herself is like a second Babylon. The City of God , bk. 18, ch. 2. "",  p. 362 .    To be brief, the city of Rome was founded, like another Babylon, and as it were the daughter of the former Babylon, [...] The City of God , bk. 18, ch. 22. "",  p. 372 . [...] so at the beginning of the western Babylon, in the time of whose government Christ was to come [...] The City of God , bk. 18...

Text:  none Quote:    36. For he sees, when in the isle Patmos, a revelation of awful mysteries, which he recounts freely, and makes known to others. Tell me, blessed John, apostle and disciple of the Lord, what didst thou see and hear concerning Babylon? Arise, and speak; for it sent thee also into banishment. 3 [...] 3 [Note this token, that, with all his prudence, he identifies "Babylon" with Rome.] Hippolytus, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist , § 36. Roberts, Alexander; Donaldson, James, The Ante-Nicene fathers; translations of the writings of the fathers down to A.D. 325 , Buffalo: The Christian Literature Company, 1886, vol. 5 - Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix, p. 211 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/antenicenefather05robeuoft Book Images: