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impossible it was to please God and Mammon.
The last sentence of this 19th verse, after shewing the great city divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations falling, brings in great Babylon thus divided, to receive the cup of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of God. We are sacredly informed, that division tends to desolation; all the supporters of mystical Babylon must surely be tormented, to see their city divided, their wealth plundered, and themselves abhorred.
Again, the 20th verse seems remarkably to point at the isles of Britain and Ireland. The first sentence says, “And every island fled away.” All agree that the prophecies of this book of the Revelation relates particularly to Christendom and Europe; more especially as Britain and Ireland are the most exalted, large, and conspicuous islands in Europe, and the most powerful and wealthy islands in Christendom. As to their fleeing away, I am incapable to describe grammatical criticisms, but I take it to
