She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. The church, which is in Babylon, (at Rome, say Euseb. S. Jerom, and so forth) so called not only on account of the extent of its empire, but also for its idolatry and vices.—Mark, my son: generally thought to have been Saint Mark, the evangelist. Witham.—See the unjust prepossession of certain seceders. In this text, where all the lights of antiquity understand Rome by Babylon, they deny it; and in the book of Revelation, where all evil spoken of Babylon, there they will have it signify nothing else but Rome: yes, and the Church of Rome, not (as the holy Fathers interpret it) the temporal state of the heathen empire.
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