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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 52C: Revelation 17–22 is unavailable, but you can change that!

An advocate of source criticism and an expert in early Christian prophecy, David Aune examines the full range of secular and biblical literature in search of possible sources for the striking literary devices in Revelation—over three volumes and more than 1,500 pages. His mastery of an incredibly broad range of ancient writings enables him to compare every pericope of Revelation to the literary...

[1974] 41–49). This has the effect of personalizing the suffering of a great number of people. In Rev 18:7, on the other hand, the excessive pride of Babylon is personalized in the brief soliloquy in which Babylon is presented as boasting in the persona of a proud queen. This proud boast may be an intentional allusion to the theme of the eternal permanence of Rome in imperial propaganda (Vergil Aeneid 6.781–82; Rutilius Namatianus De red. 1.115–40). For Vergil the Romans are rerum domini, “lords
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