And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
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A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian
AD 255
Moreover, by the waters, the cataracts broken forth meeting together on all sides, and growing, were signified the peoples which grew up for the desolation of the Church; as the Apocalypse teaches, saying, "The waters which thou sawest are peoples, and nations, and kingdoms."