John Trapp on Revelation 17:1

CHAP. XVII. Verſe 1. And there came]

THis and the following Chapters are ſet for explanation of the dark and difficult paſſages in the former in the three laſt vials eſpecially.

One of the ſeven] Probably the ſeventh.

And talked with me] Familiarly, as the Samariteſſe with her countrey-men, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Joh. 4 42. or as the Maſter with his ſchollar.

I will ſhew unto thee] Thou ſhalt not only be an ear, but an eyewitnes. Segniùs irritant animum demiſſa per aures; Quàm que ſunt oculis commiſſa fidelibus. Horat.

The judgement] The damnation of her: the deſtruction is reſerved to the next Chapter.

Of the great whore] The whore of Babylon, more infamous and notorious,Saluſt. then any Thais, Lais, Phryne, Meſſalina, Oreſtilla (cujus praeter formam nihil unquam bonus laudavit) or Pope Joane, Func. com. in Chronol of whom Funccius the Chronologer ſpeaketh thus. Ego Funccius non dubito quin divinitùs ita ſit permiſſum ut foemina fi[illegible: 1 letter]ret Pontifex, & eadem meretrix, &c. I doubt not but that God therefore permitted a notorious harlot to be advanced to the Popedome (and this about the very time when the Popes were moſt buſie in ſubjecting the Kings of the earth, and making them their vaſ[illegible: 1 letter]als) that he might point out to men this whore here mentioned, with whom the Kings of the earth committed fornication.