[Diego1618]

“The Great City,” “The Beauty of the Chaldean’s Excellency” has thus emphatically “become heaps” — she is truly “an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.” Her walls have altogether disappeared — they have “fallen,” been “thrown down,” been “broken utterly.”... The natives regard the whole site as haunted, and neither will the “Arab pitch tent nor the shepherd fold sheep there."

If you read Josephus again you will notice that he calls Babylon a country. (post #145)

[dangus]

>> If you read Josephus again you will notice that he calls Babylon a country. (post #145) <<

Right, and how many times in the New Testament does an apostle refer to being in a city, or to others being in a city? That number has to be in the hundreds. In a country? Zero (unless you count Egypt). What does Babylon mean? The much-beloved-on-this-thread Strong writes, “allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity.”

How strange that the only time an apostle refers to being in a land, it would be a name that would naturally make people think he was referring to another city.