the judgment, or the particular objects of the divine wrath, are not specified. We may think of the dragon and of the two beasts and of Babylon the great, for they were all acting the part of enemies of God and the Lamb. But the repeated mention of the land (verses 15, 16, 18, 19) and the city in verse 20 point us most naturally to the land and city of the Jewish people, which are throughout this book the most notable objects of the wrath of God. 20. Trodden without the city—We understand the city
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