(3) (Revelation 18:6-8) According to her works.--Render to her double is language addressed to whatever powers God will use for administering punishment to the apostate church. It will be what her works deserve. Mingle unto her double.--As her dupes drank from the cup of her false doctrines, so she must drink the cup of punishment. Her glorying in wantonness will be matched with torment and mourning. In one day.--The harlot's boast "I sit a queen" finds its fulfillment in the papal claim of infallible authority, but her arrogant claims will end in one day--that is, suddenly. Paul represents the coming of Jesus as a "thief in the night." The plagues mentioned in verse 8 are such as naturally would come upon a city being destroyed; typically, they represent the com-plete overthrow and end of the apostate church.