Revelation 17:4

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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

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Bede

AD 735

cup: The golden cup full of abominations is hypocrisy, because hypocrites "outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within are full of all uncleanness." <a

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Bede

AD 735

gilded: That is, with all the allurements of simulated truth. Lastly, he explains what is within this beauteousness, as follows.

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Bede

AD 735

purple: In purple is shewn the false appearance of simulated rule, in scarlet the blood-stained dress of ungodliness.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Cup. Full of the abomination These are common scriptural expressions for the abominations of idolatry, with which ancient Rome had notoriously polluted herself. For not content with worshipping her own heathenish gods, she adopted those of all the countries and nations she had subdued. In Rome itself there were no less than 420 heathenish temples, so that one of their most famous poets, Ovid, (lib. i. Trist.) says: Sed quæ de septem totum circumspicit orbem, Monti bus Imperii, Roma, Deûmque locus.

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