Revelation 18:2 Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. By crying mightily with a loud voice, we may understand a most clear and open declaration of the utter ruin, and final destruction of Mystical Babylon, Rome papal; saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen. This declaration of Rome’ s destruction, is borrowed from Isaiah 13:19-22; Isaiah 34:13-15, (Jeremiah 51:37 and Revelation 18:21). Rome material and mystical, shall be utterly ruined, papists and popery shall be destroyed root and branch. And is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. As it was with old Babylon, \ And Babylon the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldee’ s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts, of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall try in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. So it shall be with mystery Babylon, Rome papal, burnt and destroyed. Their monasteries, abbies, priories, nunneries, and all their religious places, shall be made utterly desolate, and haunted with devils. \