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Polyglot Bible: Revelation: Revelation 17

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This is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), presented in three parallel ancient/classical language versions: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version (KJV) with Strong's concordance numbers, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter recounts a visionary episode in which the apostle John is shown "the Great Whore of Babylon" — a richly adorned woman seated on a scarlet seven-headed, ten-horned beast — and then receives an angelic interpretation of the vision's symbolic elements. The angel explains that the seven heads represent both seven hills (widely understood as an allusion to Rome) and seven successive kings, while the ten horns represent ten subordinate kings who will briefly ally with the beast before turning against the harlot and destroying her. A distinctive and structurally central claim is the beast's paradoxical nature — it "was, and is not, and yet is" — framing it as a demonic counterfeit of divine eternality, destined to rise from the abyss before final destruction. The chapter closes with the explicit identification of the woman as "that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth," anchoring the apocalyptic allegory in a specific, if coded, historical-political reality. The KJV column's inclusion of Strong's numbers makes this presentation a study tool aimed at readers doing word-level Greek analysis rather than purely devotional readers.

Polyglot Bible: Revelation: Revelation 17

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