Abstract
The historical-contemporary or preterist approach has consecrated the Roman empire inthe first century as the referent behind the spiritual Babylon of chapters 16 to 18 of Revelation.However, a reassessment of this theological motif from the document itself and inthe light of certain hermeneutical, exegetical and historical considerations demonstrates atranstemporal referentiality in harmony with the chronologically multivalent and historicallycontinuous character of biblical apocalyptic eschatology in general and Johannineeschatology in particular. The recurring apostasy of God’s people at key moments in historyemerges from such an analysis as the referent behind the great prostitute-city of theApocalypse.
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