|<span id="17:18"></span> And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
|<span id="17:18"></span> And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
|And the woman you saw is the great city that rules imperially over all the heads-of-state of the earth."
|And the woman you saw is the great city that rules imperially over all the heads-of-state of the earth."
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|While the historicist school of eschatology traditionally identified the Papacy as the Whore of Babylon rather than the Antichrist as a kingdom, modern-day historicists frequently repeat the technically incorrect claim of the Papacy constituting the (entire) first beast of Revelation 13.