Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Detestable Things of the Earth

 

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "...[T]he beast and the woman are not the same thing..."

 

Harlotry is figurative of spiritual adultery (Is. 57:7–9; Rev 17:1–18).  

 

See:

 

Re 14:8, 17:1 MacArthur; Re 17:1-3 J. Vernon McGee

 

Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Detestable Things of the Earth