Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 19:2
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Revelation19:2
2 For true and righteous are his judgments , for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication , and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand .
The Lord's Judgments in holy Writ, sometimes signifie his Precepts, sometimes his Dispensations of Providence, either more generally, or more specially; in which last sense it signifies (as here) his Punishment of Sinners. These are just and righteous, and therefore called Judgments;
for he hath punished the Papacy,
which corrupted a great part of the Earth with its Idolatry.
And by these judicial Dispensations God hath also taken Vengeance on them for the Blood of his Saints shed by them. It is remarkable, that all along this Book Idolatry and Persecution are made the Beast's provoking Sins.
Marginal references: Chap. 15.3. & 16.7.; Deut. 32.43. Chap. 18.20.
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