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In certain passages of the OT the concept of Babylon emerges into an archetypal figure for the proud, God-defying forces of this world. In the NT it is even more clearly a type of pan-deism formed from a synthesis of Christianity and paganism; this is indicated symbolically in the description of the woman riding on the Beast.
Charles F. Pfeiffer, Howard Frederic Vos, John Ream, The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, 1975, page 190, ISBN 0802496970. | ||
