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Revelation 17

3 The description of the great whore. 8 Her sins and punishment. 14 The victory of the Lamb.
1.aThen there came one of the seven Angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come: I will show thee the damnation of the great bwhore that sitteth upon many cwaters.
2.With whom have committed fornication the Kings of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication.
3.So he carried me away into the wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured dbeast, full of names of eblasphemy, which had seven heads, and ten horns.
4.And the fwoman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, and had a cup of gold in her hand, full of gabominations, and filthiness of her fornication.
5.And in her forehead was a name written, hA Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of whoredomes, and abominations of the earth.
6.And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.
7.Then the Angel said unto me, Wherefore marveliest thou? I will show thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast, that beareth her, which hath seven heads, and ten horns.
8.The ibeast that thou hast seen, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth, shall wonder (whose names are not written in the Book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9.Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are kseven mountains, whereon the woman sitteth: they are also lseven Kings.
10.Five are fallen, and one is, and another is not yet come: and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11.And the beast that was, and is not, is even the meight, and is one of the seven, and shall go into destruction.
12.And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten Kings, which yet have not received a kingdom, but shall receive power, as Kings at one hour with the beast.
13.nThese have one mind, and shall give their power, and authority unto the beast.
14.These shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall oovercome them: *for he is Lord of Lords, & King of Kings: and they that are on his side, called, & chosen, and faithful.
15.And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16.And the pten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, are they that shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17.For God hath qput in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to do with one consent for to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God be fulfilled.
18.And the woman which thou sawest, is the great city, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth.

Notes

1-a.
Which was Christ Jesus who will take vengeance on this Romish harlot.
1-b.
Antichrist is compared to an harlot because he seduceth the world with vain words, doctrines of lies, and outward appearance.
1-c.
Meaning, divers nations and countries.
3-d.
The beast signifies the ancient Rome: the woman that sitteth thereon, the new Rome which is the Papistrie, whose cruelty and blood shedding is declared by scarlet.
3-e.
Full of idiolatry, superstition and contempt of the true God.
4-f.
This woman is the Antichrist, that is, the Pope with the whole body of his filthy creatures, as is expounded, ver. 18 whose beauty only stands in outward pomp and impudence and craft like a strumpet.
4-g.
Of false doctrines and blasphemies.
5-h.
Which none can know to avoid but the elect.
8-i.
That is the Romaine empire which being fallen into decay, the whore of Rome usurped authority, and proceeded from the devil and thither shall return.
9-k.
Which are about Rome.
9-l.
For after that the empire was decayed, in Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, and Titus died in less than fourteen years and reigned as Kings: Domitian then reigned, and after him Cocceius Nerva which was the seventh.
11-m.
He means Traian the emperor who was a Spaniard and adopted by Nerva, but because he persecuted the faithful he goeth also to perdition
13-n.
He signifies the horrible persecutions which have been under the empire of Rome, and in all other realms subject to the same.
14-*.
1 Tim. 6.15, chap. 19.16.
14-o.
And break them to shivers as a potter’s pot.
16-p.
Divers nations as the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and other nations which were once subject to Rome, shall rise against it and destroy it.
17-q.
That instead of doing homage to Christ Jesus, they should be cast into a reprobate sense to serve Antichrist, and to dedicate themselves and theirs wholly unto him.