§280 - Footnotes

Revelation 17: The Great Whore and Beast from Ancient Rome and Beyond

[§280] Rev 17:1-2: Overview of the Great Whore [False Religion]

Footnotes for this section

  1. See generally An Overview of the Last Seven Vial Plagues in Revelation 16. ↩︎
  2. See Rev 16:17; and generally Rev 16:10-16: The Fifth and Sixth Vials Are Directed at Evil Spirits; Rev 16:12: The Kings of the East Prepare for Battle; Rev 16:17: The Father’s Voice Declares, “It Is Done”. ↩︎
  3. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Whedon, WCB [Rev 17:1]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:1-2]; Alford, GTCEC [Rev 17:1-20]. ↩︎
  4. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 219. ↩︎
  5. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Draper, OSS, 265; Draper, OSS, 184; Wiersbe, WEONT, 844. ↩︎
  6. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Keener, IVPNT, 762; Coke, TCC [Rev 17:1]; Edwards, FBNT [Rev 17:1]. ↩︎
  7. See Joseph Fielding McConkie, HWS, 147; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 219; Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 709; Seiss, ALBR, 385. ↩︎
  8. See Henry, MHC, 2481; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:1]; Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:1]; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Draper, OSS, 159; Donald W. Parry, UST, 288; Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 3, 552. ↩︎
  9. See Burkitt, ENPO [Rev 17:1]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:1-2]; Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:1-2]. ↩︎
  10. See Draper, RJA, 639. ↩︎
  11. See Joseph Fielding McConkie, DCBM, Vol. 4, 20; Easton, IBD, 311-312; Youngblood, NBD, 541; Unger, UBD, 537; Brewster, DCE, 634; and generally John’s Vision of the Two Beasts Compared with Nephi’s Visions. ↩︎
  12. See Youngblood, NBD, 541; Easton, IBD, 311; Orr, ISBE, Vol. 2, 1339; Ice, BSNT [Rev 17:1]; Donald W. Parry, UST, 288. ↩︎
  13. See Draper, OSS, 188; Morrison, TFT, 78, 85; Donald W. Parry, UST, 308-309. ↩︎
  14. See Isa 1:21; Easton, IBD, 311; Nyman, WJ, 26; Orr, ISBE, Vol. 2, 1339; Youngblood, NBD, 1040. ↩︎
  15. See Draper, OSS, 185-186; James R. Clark, MFP, Vol. 5, 66; Largey, BMRC, 575; Nyman, IP, 84. ↩︎
  16. See Adam Clarke, ACC, Vol. 6, 1036; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 709; Draper, OSS, 184; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 219. ↩︎
  17. See Rev 17:15; Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:1-2]; Draper, RJA, 639; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 381; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:1]. ↩︎
  18. See Jackson, SS, Vol. 4, 251; Draper, OSS, 196; Victor L. Ludlow, IPSP, 182; Brewster, BICQ, 98. ↩︎
  19. See 1 Ne 14:10; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 194; Victor L. Ludlow, P&P, 617; Seiss, ALBR, 387; and generally John’s Vision of the Two Beasts Compared with Nephi’s Visions. ↩︎
  20. See Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 440-441; Donald W. Parry, UST, 283; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 493-494; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 434. ↩︎
  21. 1 Ne 14:11; see also Jay A. Parry, UBR, 216, 220; Joseph Fielding McConkie, DCBM, Vol. 1, 112; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:1]; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:1]; and generally Rev 17:15: The Latter-day Whore Sits upon Many Waters. ↩︎
  22. See Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:1-2]; Draper, OSS, 184. ↩︎
  23. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Vincent, VWS [Rev 17:1]; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:1]; Whedon, WCB [Rev 17:1]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:1-2]; cf. Rev 16:12; and generally Rev 16:12: The Kings of the East Prepare for Battle. ↩︎
  24. See Rev 17:5; Ellicott, ECER [Rev 17:1]; cf. Seiss, ALBR, 385; and generally Rev 17:5: The Name of the Great Whore Is Babylon the Great. ↩︎
  25. See Brewster, BICQ, 196; Beza, GSG [Rev 17:1]; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:1]. ↩︎
  26. See David B. Haight, CR, April 1973, “Power of Evil”, 84; William J. Critchlow, Jr., CR, April 1962, 37; Doxey, PPDC, 251; Lundquist, BSBF, Vol. 2, 390; Donald W. Parry, UI, 129, 187; and generally Rev 14:8: The Second Angel Proclaims the Fall of Babylon. ↩︎
  27. Rev 17:18; and see Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:1]; Draper, OSS, 160; and generally Rev 17:18: The Great Whore Reigns over Modern Babylon. ↩︎
  28. See Walvoord, BKCNT, 970; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 437-438; Nyman, JSTR, 12; Nyman, FNDF, 180, 190. ↩︎
  29. See Cowan, AQDC, 20; Watt, JD, Vol. 25, 362; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 343-344. ↩︎
  30. See Bruce R. McConkie, NWAF, 579; Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 1, 297; and generally John’s Vision of the Two Beasts Compared with Nephi’s Visions. ↩︎
  31. See Seiss, ALBR, 386-387; Draper, RJA, 644; and generally Rev 12:1: The Sign of the Woman Is the Premortal Church; Rev 12:14: The Church Is Nourished in the Wilderness; Rev 12:15-16: Flood Water Threatens the Woman in 70 AD; Rev 12:17: The Dragon Makes War on the Woman’s Seed. ↩︎
  32. See Seiss, ALBR, 386; Zion’s, HR, 138; Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 3, 552. ↩︎
  33. See Rev 21:9; Wesley, JWEN [Rev 17:1]; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 380; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17 Intro]; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 219; Turner, WP, 41; Donald W. Parry, UI, 480; and generally Rev 19:7-8: Marriage of the Lamb and His Wife [the Church]; Rev 21:9-11: The Holy [Old] Jerusalem, Bride and Wife of the Lamb. ↩︎
  34. See Largey, BMRC, 311-312; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 137-138; and generally Rev 13:11: The Two-Horned Lamb That Speaks as a Dragon. ↩︎
  35. 1 Ne 22:14; Daniel H. Ludlow, EM, Vol. 2, 568; Largey, BMRC, 311; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 52; Joseph Fielding McConkie, DCBM, Vol. 1, 268; see generally John’s Vision of the Two Beasts Compared with Nephi’s Visions. ↩︎
  36. See Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 493-494; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:1]; but see also Jay A. Parry, UBR, 222; and generally Rev 13:11: The Two-Horned Lamb That Speaks as a Dragon; Rev 13:12-13: The Power and Miracles of the Second Beast; Rev 13:14-15: The Wicked Make an Image to the First Beast. ↩︎
  37. See generally The Spirit of Judas Iscariot Is the False Prophet. ↩︎
  38. See Rev 16:13; Rev 19:20; Rev 20:10; Draper, OSS, 188, 275; but see also Jay A. Parry, UBR, 171; and generally Rev 16:13: Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs; Rev 19:20: Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet; Rev 20:10: Satan Is Cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. ↩︎
  39. See Rev 18:3; Rev 18:9; Largey, BMRC, 312; and generally Rev 18:1-3: The Spiritual Fall of the Great Whore [Modern Babylon]; Rev 18:9-10: Kings of the Earth Bewail Babylon’s Burning. ↩︎
  40. See Rev 6:15; Rev 17:18; Isa 24:21; Ezek 27:33; Nyman, GWI, 96; Joseph Smith, HC, Vol. 4, 309; and generally Rev 6:15-16: Seven Wicked Classes of Men Hide in Fear; Rev 17:18: The Great Whore Reigns over Modern Babylon. ↩︎
  41. See Joseph Fielding Smith, DS, Vol. 2, 155; Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 2, part 1, 639; Watt, JD, Vol. 16, 205-206; Zion’s, HR, 95-96; Sperry, VOT, 64. ↩︎
  42. See Acts 4:26; Barnes, BN, Vol. 10, part 1, 86; Poole, MPEA [Acts 4:26]; Taylor, GG, 61; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 233; and generally Rev 17:18: The Great Whore Reigns over Modern Babylon. ↩︎
  43. See Rev 13:11; and generally Ten Horns: Dominion in the Modern Nations; The Little Horn: Satan’s Dominion since 1830 AD; Rev 13:11: The Two-Horned Lamb That Speaks as a Dragon; Rev 17:16-17: Ten Horns Shall Hate and Burn the Great Whore. ↩︎
  44. See Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:1]; Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:1]; Lundquist, BSBF, Vol. 1, 94, 116; George Reynolds, BOM, Vol. 1, 406. ↩︎
  45. See George Q. Cannon, GT, 543, 547; Robert S. Wood, CR, October 1999, “’The Tongue of Angels”’, 108; Draper, RJA, 640. ↩︎
  46. See Taylor, GK, 166; Donald W. Parry, UST, 294; Watt, JD, Vol. 1, 225; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 83. ↩︎
  47. See Nyman, FNDF, 180, 191. ↩︎
  48. See Easton, IBD, 265; Fausset, FBD, 236; McClintock, MSE, Vol. 3, 626; Youngblood, NBD, 463; Unger, UBD, 441; Nyman, GWI, 219; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 381. ↩︎
  49. See Rev 17:18; Adam Clarke, ACC, Vol. 6, 1036; Donald W. Parry, UST, 288; Draper, RJA, 639-640; and generally Rev 17:18: The Great Whore Reigns over Modern Babylon. ↩︎
  50. See Draper, OSS, 185; Henry, MHC, 2481. ↩︎
  51. See Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 3, 552-553; Draper, OSS, 196-197. ↩︎
  52. See Draper, RJA, 640; Taylor, GG, 36-37; Delbert L. Stapley, CR, April 1971, “Honesty and Integrity”, 152; David O. McKay, CR, April 1951, 97; and cf. Hel 5:2. ↩︎
  53. See Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 3, 553; Ellicott, ECER [Rev 17:1]; Joseph Benson, JBC [17:1-2]; Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:1-2]; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 220; Draper, RJA, 641. ↩︎
  54. See Rev 18:3; Draper, OSS, 160, 185-186; and generally Rev 18:1-3: The Spiritual Fall of the Great Whore [Modern Babylon]. ↩︎
  55. See Jer 51:7; Donald W. Parry, UI, 263; Watt, JD, Vol. 8, 172; Brewster, IPS, 158, 227. ↩︎
  56. See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 381; Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 709; but see also Draper, OSS, 193; and generally An Overview of Satan’s Kingdom [Two Beasts] in Revelation 13; Rev 13:1: A Beast [Rome] Rises from the Sea in 70 AD. ↩︎
  57. See Matthews, SWRM, 595; Whedon, WCB [Rev 17:1]; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:1]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:1-2]. ↩︎
  58. See Draper, RJA, 644; and generally Rev 18:9-19: Babylon Begins to Burn and Three Groups Mourn; Rev 18:9-10: Kings of the Earth Bewail Babylon’s Burning; Rev 18:11-16: Merchants of the Earth Shall Weep and Mourn; Rev 18:17-19: Four Groups of Mariners Shall Cry and Weep. ↩︎
  59. See Rev 14:8; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 381; and generally Rev 14:8: The Second Angel Proclaims the Fall of Babylon; Rev 18:6-7: Modern Babylon Rewarded Double for Her Works. ↩︎