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# Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great
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The angel speaks of Babylon having been destroyed as if it had fallen. Alternate translation: "Babylon the great has been destroyed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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"Babylon the great has been destroyed"
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# Babylon the great
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"Babylon the large city" or "the important city of Babylon." This was probably a symbol for the city of Rome, which was large, wealthy, and sinful. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-symlanguage]])
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"Babylon the large city" or "the important city of Babylon." This was probably a symbol for the city of Rome, which was large, wealthy, and sinful
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# who persuaded
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Babylon is spoken of as if it were a person, instead of a city filled with people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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Babylon is spoken of as if it were a person, instead of a city filled with people.
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# to drink the wine of her immoral passion
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This is a symbol for participating in her sexually immoral passion. Alternate translation: "to be sexually immoral like her" or "to get drunk like her in sexual sin" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-symlanguage]])
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# her immoral passion
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Babylon is spoken of as if it were a prostitute who has caused other people to sin along with her. This may well have a double meaning: literal sexual immorality and also the worship of false gods. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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"to be sexually immoral like her" or "to get drunk like her in sexual sin"
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