"One of the seven angels said unto me: I will show unto thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings
of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have
been made drunk with the wine of her fornications. So he carried me away
into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast full
of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman
was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forhead was a name written:
`Mystery, Babylon, the Great, the mother of the harlots and abominations
of the earth.' And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her I wondered
with great admiration." (Rev. 17.)
