Malachy uses the imagery of the whore of Babylon on 7 hills. John called it in Rev 17, "the city that rules over the kings of the earth."
In John's day that was Rome.
Washington, DC? New York? Tokyo? Beijing? Moscow?
Certainly not Rome of today; even much less so Vatican City (which is not part of classical Rome).
Well, no, he didn't. He just said that the seven-hilled city would be destroyed. No whores or Babylonians mentioned.
In context, that's probably Rome, which is certainly famous for its seven hills.
John called it in Rev 17, "the city that rules over the kings of the earth."
Are you sure it's the same "it"? John also calls it "the great city," (17:18) and in 11:8 he speaks of a "great city" which is clearly Jerusalem.
That phrase "the great city" is used several times in the OT in reference to Jerusalem. Compare the language of Rev 17 to that of Jeremiah 25, which is certainly speaking of Jerusalem, and the evidence is even clearer. (Rev 17 is also "cribbing" from some texts in Ezekiel which refer to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.)
And, BTW, ancient Jerusalem is also a "seven-hilled city".
I didn’t realize that you had accepted some of my theories on several threads about the code words and imageries used in the Book of Revelation.
I do think John was referring to the ‘Rome’ of that day when there were executions, martyrs galore. Not the Catholic Church.
But it appears that you are transferring that interpretation to the Catholic Church. That was not the image intended by John. Am I correct in my judgment about your post here?