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# Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great
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"Babylon the great has been destroyed"
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# Babylon the great
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"Babylon the large city" or "the important city of Babylon." This was probably a symbol for the city of Rome, which was large, wealthy, and sinful
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# who persuaded
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Babylon is spoken of as if it were a person, instead of a city filled with people.
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# to drink the wine of her immoral passion
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"to be sexually immoral like her" or "to get drunk like her in sexual sin"
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