# Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great "Babylon the great has been destroyed" # Babylon the great "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 # who persuaded Babylon is spoken of as if it were a person, instead of a city filled with people. # to drink the wine of her immoral passion "to be sexually immoral like her" or "to get drunk like her in sexual sin"