Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 17:6
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Revelation17:6
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints▪ and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus x: and when I saw her, I wondred with great admiration.
The Papacy
Filled with the Blood of those Holy Ones, which she caused to be slain for bearing Testimony to Jesus Christ.
Which he would not have done had it been a Pagan Rome he had seen in this Vision. But that any that owned Christ, and called themselves the Holy Church, should kill Men for bearing Testimony to Christ, and adherence to his Rule of Faith and Life, this cause in Iohn a just wonderment.
Marginal references: Chap. 18.2[illegible: 1 letter]
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