Revelation Chapter 17 verse 18 Holy Bible
And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
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And the woman whom you saw is the great town, which is ruling over the kings of the earth.
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And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which has kingship over the kings of the earth.
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And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
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The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
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and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. A repetition of the assertion made in ver. 5, viz. that the harlot and Babylon are identical (see on ver. 5). Many writers have been led by this verse to believe that Rome, either pagan or papal, is thus pointed out as the antitype of the harlot. That this is one fulfilment of the vision need hardly be doubted. Rome was in St. John's time the foremost embodiment of the hostile forces of the world. But this is not the whole fulfilment, which is in all time (see above, especially on ver. 1 of this chapter).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) And the woman which thou sawest . . .--Read, And the woman whom thou sawest is (not "that," but) the great city, which has a kingdom over the kings of the earth. With these words the angel's explanation of "the mystery of the woman" (see Revelation 17:7) ends. The harlot is a city; the Babylon of the past lives again in Rome; the woman is Rome, the goddess of lands and peoples.""She who was named Eternal, and arrayedHer warriors but to conquer--she Who veiledEarth with her haughty shadow and displayedUntil the o'er canopied horizon failedHer rushing wings--Oh! she who was Almighty hailed."