SIN OF BABYLON by V. T.

Publishing Committee · Saratoga Springs, N. Y. · Dec 23, 1851

SIN OF BABYLON.

By V. T.

What was the damning sin of Mystery Babylon? Fornication with the kings of the earth. See Rev. xvii. 2; xviii. 9. In what did that fornication consist? An unlawful connection and traffic with the world, chap. xviii. 11. To whom would it be sin to be thus connected and traffic with the world? Not the literal city of Rome, nor any other city; it was their nature and right to be connected and traffic with the kings of the earth. Rome, therefore, cannot be the Babylon symbolized by the "mother of harlots." No other body can commit this sin, the sin of "fornication with the kings of the earth," but the church, or people of God, whose law requires them to be separate from the world. The church has violated this law, and become connected with the world; with it has committed fornication. Every sect is guilty of this crime. There can, therefore, be no doubt but that they all constitute the Babylon, against which the sin of fornication is charged, and out of which God now calls his people. This evidence alone is sufficient to decide what Babylon is. [V. T.