[dangus]

A metametaphor?

The whore Babylon alludes to Rome, but is Jerusalem? And I must repeat, my bible says nothing about specifically referring to Jerusalem. The verse you cite says the city is Egypt and Sodom, providing further metaphorical comparisons. Unless taken as a metametametaphor.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

A metametaphor? The whore Babylon alludes to Rome, but is Jerusalem? And I must repeat, my bible says nothing about specifically referring to Jerusalem. The verse you cite says the city is Egypt and Sodom, providing further metaphorical comparisons. Unless taken as a metametametaphor.

Read it again... The Great City "where also our Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:8). The Great City is obviously Jerusalem, she having become a God-hating Whore who is seated upon the Beast which is Rome ("His blood be on us, and on our children... we have no king but Caesar").