the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Foul
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Revelation 18:2 (a) In this way GOD reveals His utter hatred for the wicked practices and the evil beliefs which prevail in those great world systems of religion which are described as Babylon. In these religious systems every evil known to man prospers and is promoted. Men and women are held as slaves in darkened buildings. Many are not permitted to even speak. They are bound to permanent silence. Others have physical afflictions imposed upon them in the name of GOD. History reveals the burnings, the tortures, the imprisonments, and the lustful practices of these great religions. The followers are kept in abject slavery, and therefore the verse describes the situation of the wicked leaders as being in a cage and a prison cell. Luther and others were blessed of GOD in breaking open many of these prison cells, and setting great multitudes free from the tyranny, the wickedness, the evil of the monster that held them captives.
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Foul'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/f/foul.html. 1957.
