This interpretation of corrupt religious leaders as merchants
That's a very interesting interpretation. And to me, it does not in the slightest
degrade the profession of merchant.
Similarly, in the Book of Revelation the new Law is foreshadowed as a woman (12:1);
and corrupt religion as a
Patti Goebel wrote: Speaking of Babylon, the symbolic city
of corrupted religion, John writes: . . . thy merchants
were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets,
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the
Several years ago I noticed the allegorical use of the term merchant in
the Book of Revelation to refer to religious leaders who use religion to
satisfy their own quests for either the physical riches of the earth or to
feed their vanity and egos on the souls of men.
Speaking of Babylon, the
Well, don't forget Muhammad and the Bab were
chants too. ;-}
I wasn't forgetting (it came out in the Ocean
search when I was tracking down the exact quotes I was thinking about). In
this caseI'm referringonly to the allegorical "merchants" of
corrupted religion--Babylon, not earthly ones
