Apocalypse Revealed #713
713. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. This symbolizes the destruction also at that time of the dogmas of the Roman Catholic religion.
As a city, as it is here, Babylon symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion in respect to its dogmas and doctrines (no. 631). To give her the cup of the wine of the fury of God's wrath means, symbolically, to destroy it to the point that nothing but evil and falsity remains. That this is the symbolic meaning of the cup of the wine of the fury of God's wrath may be seen in nos. 631, 632 above.
[2] 16:20 [Then every island fled away, and mountains were not found. This symbolically means that there was no longer any truth of faith, nor any goodness of love.] 1
Fotnoter:
1. This text, omitted here in the original Latin, is taken from The Contents of the Individual Verses above. Since it is referred to in no. 737:1, in may have been accidentally omitted by the typesetter of the first edition.
