After beating Chen Fan, Mordred put aside the things he bought, and scratched his head as he looked at Belia, who was sitting on the bed against the wall and had recovered a little.

Originally, she thought that since she had recovered herself, she could say goodbye, but Chen Fan's actions just now really couldn't put her mind at ease, thinking about it, Mordred reached out and took a stool, flipped it over, and sat down with her hands around the back of the chair: "Originally, the master was going to go back, but the two of you are really not at ease in this situation, since this is the case, the master will wait for you to fully recover." ”

Belia smiled slightly when she heard this, glanced at Chen Fan, who was still crawling on the carpet and pretending to be dead, ignored him, and took the initiative to speak after thinking about it: "However, just sitting here is really a bit boring, I don't know what Mordred usually likes?" What are your interests? ”

"Hah! I'm usually studying some classics and stuff like that, but other than that......" The slender onion couldn't help tapping on the back of the chair, and Mordred had a vague look of embarrassment on her face, "That is, I know more about the situation in the abyss and hell, but you may not understand it very well, right?" ”

"Huh? Aren't the abyss and hell the same meaning? Chen Fan, who was originally pretending to be dead on the carpet, raised his head sharply when he heard this, he had just become a floating spirit for just a few months, and he was usually learning medical knowledge, so he really didn't know much about some other information.

Although he saw that Chen Fan was not pretending to be dead, Mordred suddenly stretched out a leg and stepped on it, asking him to "quack!" He let out a howl: "Of course not, you don't know all this common sense, don't you?" ”

Originally, I was still thinking of groping Mordred's feet with my backhand, but after feeling the strength of my back that could almost break my spine with his movements, Chen Fan obediently gave up resistance and lay on the ground and snorted: "No way, I have been a floating spirit for less than half a year, and most of my time is spent studying medical knowledge or spending most of my time in the hospital, why don't you be merciful to the two beauties and explain it to me, a person who doesn't know anything?" ”

Hearing that Chen Fan had only become a floating spirit for less than half a year, Mordred and Belia both raised their eyebrows, and after glancing at each other, Mordred, who had a strong intuition, shook his head lightly, indicating that he didn't feel that Chen Fan was lying.

However, Belia didn't plan to ask about this, Mordred was also interested, and continued to talk eloquently with Chen Fan: "Tut-tut, I didn't expect your kid to be such a rare situation, although the master is very unhappy with you, but it's not bad to be your teacher, after all, don't you Central Plains people have any saying of 'being a teacher for one day and a father for life'?" Master likes this sentence very much. ”

complained in my heart that even if you want to take advantage of me, you have to be my mother, but under the pressure of the forces behind him, Chen Fan still held back these words with interest, revealing a reluctant smile: "Yes, you are right, so can you ......?"

Before he finished speaking, Mordred turned his toes and asked Chen Fan to cut off the words in his chest: "Okay, come on, come on, the master will be merciful and tell you." The abyss and hell are essentially the names of the thirteen realms under the clouds, but the first six layers have no 'sin' and are called the abyss, and the last seven realms each have a super monster named 'sin', which is collectively called hell. ”

"But when it comes to 'sin,' it has to do with the existence of a great witch named Babylon, who is said to have ridden on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns, dressed in purple and scarlet, and holding a golden cup filled with filth, and with the words on her forehead: 'O mystery! Babylon the Great, the mother of the enchantress of the world, and of all abominations. ’

She drank the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified about Jesus, and her sin was heinous, but within a day she was suffering death and sorrow, and she was about to be consumed by fire. It is generally believed that the Great Maess of Babylon was synonymous with the "Roman Empire" of the Old World, and her misdeeds and endings reflected the extreme hatred of Christians towards the Roman Empire in the second half of the first century A.D. in the Old World. ”

Hearing Mordred say this, Belia couldn't help but glance at her:

"Some say she symbolizes ancient Rome. Ancient Rome, however, was an empire; The book of Revelation says that the great witch did unspeakable things with the kings of the earth, and the kings of the Roman Empire naturally included. Later in the book of Revelation, it is reported that "the kings of the earth" wept over her demise, indicating that she was not a political empire. On the other hand, the merchants of the world also mourn the fate of the Great Demon Woman, so she cannot be a business empire. The Bible describes the great witch of Babylon as saying, "Thou hast been a psychic and have deceived all the nations." It can be seen that the Great Enchantress refers to other religious empires that have influence throughout the world in addition to Christianity, which is now believed in in the Holy Roman Empire. ”

"Yes, yes, yes," to Belia's surprise, Mordred did not mind her allusions, and continued with great interest: "The Bible also says that this woman was dressed in purple and bright red, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls, and held in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations and the filth of her birth. On her forehead was written a name containing a mystery: 'Babylon the Great, mother of the enchantresses and of the abomination of the earth.' I saw this woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.

In ancient Rome, the names of witches were written on their foreheads. The great enchantress also had a name written on her forehead, a very long name: "Babylon the Great, mother of the enchantresses and the abominations of the earth." The name is "mysterious", that is, its meaning is hidden. However, when God's appointed time comes, this mystery will be revealed. In fact, the angel's message to John was so detailed that one could see the true meaning of the name. Babylon the Great refers to all false religions. She is the mother of the "witches" because all the false religions of the world, including many Christian denominations, are like her daughters, imitating her in the spiritual unspeakable. She is also the mother of the 'abominations', for many abominable religious practices originate from her, such as idolatry, spiritism, divination, astrology, palmistry, temple disorders, human sacrifices, drunkenness, and all sorts of filthy and ugly practices.

And the garments worn by the great witches of Babylon were "purple and bright red," the colors worn by the royal family, and "wore gold, precious stones, and pearls." The world's religions have amassed a great deal of wealth: beautiful churches and temples, precious and rare statues of famous paintings, priceless idols of gods, and countless religious objects of all kinds. These huge amounts of property and money are astronomical. ”

When Chen Fan heard this on the ground, he thought: "I have read the original text, and it is said that the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation describes the great witch of Babylon and says, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great witch who sits on the waters." The kings of the earth had always done unspeakable things with her, and the dwellers of the earth were drunk with the wine of her demagoguery. (Revelation 17:1-2 Recovery Version)

Seeing that Chen Fan still had some understanding, Mordred snapped his fingers with satisfaction, and the strength on his feet relaxed a little: "This is because the old world ancient Babylon was built across the Euphrates River, and there are many canals in the city, which can be said to be "sitting on a watery river". In addition to serving as moats, these rivers also facilitated trade and brought wealth. No one would have expected that they would dry up overnight. In the same way, the Great Maiden of Babylon relied on the "watery rivers" for protection and wealth. The "watery river" symbolizes "people of all nationalities, peoples, nations, and languages", and they are the tens of millions of believers who are controlled by the Great Demon Woman and make her rich. Unexpectedly, the water gradually dried up, and she was no longer financially supported.

The Bible describes ancient Babylon as "a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah that made the whole earth drunk." (Jeremiah 51:7) The ancient Babylonian conquered its neighbors by force and forced the nations to drink the wine of Jehovah's wrath, making them weak and powerless like drunken people. In this respect, she is Jehovah's instrument. On the other hand, Babylon the Great has also become a vast empire that spans the globe, but she is not a tool of God like ancient Babylon. Instead, she ministered to "the kings of the earth" and "did the unspeakable" with them. In order to curry favor with the kings, she manipulated the "earth-dwelling" masses with deceptive ideas and slave customs, making them as weak as drunken people and obediently at the mercy of the kings.

But when the great man was in decline, the angel said to John about the great witch: "You see the water on which the woman sits, and it symbolizes the peoples, the peoples, the nations, and the languages." And the ten horns and the wild beasts that thou shalt see will hate her, and will destroy her, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her utterly with fire. —Revelation 17:15, 16.

Just as ancient Babylon relied on the "watery rivers" of her territory for protection, so the Great Maess relied on the support of her millions of followers—people of "every people, people, nation, and language." When the angel pointed this out, he revealed an astonishing development in the future: the governments of the world would attack Babylon the Great. At that time, people of "all nationalities, masses, nations, and languages" would stand idly by. In the end, the "river" will dry up completely. When this old and disgusting big demon woman needed help the most, no "water" could help her.

Babylon the Great's vast wealth could not save her, and might even hasten her demise. John had a vision that the beast and the ten horns, when they vented their anger on the great witch, stripped her of her fine clothes and jewels, and robbed her of all her belongings. They would "make her naked" and expose her ugly true colors. Not only that, but her fate was also disgraceful. The beast and the ten horns would ravage her, "eat her flesh", leaving only a lifeless skeleton, and finally "burn her completely with fire". She shall be burned with fire like a carcass of a pestilence, and she shall not be buried.

God uses the kings of the earth to execute judgments. "For God put his mind into the heart of the horns, and to carry out the horns, that is, to perform the consent of the ten horns, and to give the kingship to the beasts, until the word of God is fulfilled." (Revelation 17:17) God's "intention" is to bring all the powers together against Babylon the Great and to destroy her completely. Of course, the nations of the nations to fight the Great Demon Woman were originally to implement everyone's "mutual understanding", thinking that it would be beneficial for their country to overthrow her. They may feel that the continued existence of organized religion in their homeland threatens their national sovereignty and that the nations are actually practicing God's will.

Apparently emphasizing that Jehovah would be executed for false religion in the world, the angel concluded by saying: "The woman you see symbolizes a great city, a kingdom over the kings of the earth." (Revelation 17:18) Like Babylon in Belshazzar's day, Babylon the Great was "weighed in the scales to show [her] indebtedness," and (Daniel 5:27) Babylon the Great would be promptly executed. ”

After listening to Mordred's story, Chen Fan finally understood the meaning of the Babylonian Great Demon Woman, but then raised his hand again: "So, is there any connection between this Babylonian Great Demon Woman and the seven 'sins' we discussed?" ”

"Tsk, didn't you say it all, the great witch of Babylon rode it, and then devoured her with seven horns and ten crowns? According to the scholars of Babel, the seven horns refer to the seven 'sins' in hell, namely Lilith of desire, Mammon of greed, Samael of rage, Leviathan of jealousy, Beelzebub of gluttony, Lucifer of arrogance, and laziness at the bottom of the world, which is unknown except for the code. ”

"And what about the Ten Crowns?" Curious baby Chen Fan continued to raise his hand to ask.

Mordred said so much, only felt that his mouth was dry, and he didn't pay attention to Chen Fan at all, but just reached out and took a glass of water and drank it in a big gulp.

Seeing this situation, Belia, who was sitting on the bed, sighed helplessly, and took Chen Fan's words and explained: "The interpretation of the Ten Crowns is not uniform within the Tower of Babel, some scholars believe that it refers to the ten dynasties of the ancient Roman Empire in the Old World, and some think that it is a satire on the tyrant Nero, after all, the book of Revelation can essentially be said to be written by the believers for Nero.

In the book of Revelation, their followers compare the whole of Rome to the great witch of Babylon, and Nero, who oppressed Christianity the most, is also remembered by the believers, so if its name is pronounced in the Hebrew NRVN QSR, it can be homophonized as the beast of 666, and even the city of the seven hills in Rome is described by them as the seven heads of the evil beast, and the ten crowns are ironic with the legend that Nero once opened his eyes when he found his Roman soldiers covering him with a cloth three days after he killed himself. ”

"Tut-tut, what a cautious eye, after Nero became emperor at the age of seventeen, he had great popularity among the citizens with his generous policies. It also cared about diplomacy, and Britain's praise of the late Roman period was because of its policies. In a sense, it is the character who created the opportunity to give birth to the legend of King Arthur. Moreover, Persia had a high opinion of Nero, and Persia also gave Rome great care after Nero's death on the grounds that it was "because it was Nero's country". Turning over and lying on the ground, Chen Fan's tone was full of sarcasm, "The most terrible thing is that the believers who were persecuted so much at the beginning will not continue to persecute the followers of other religions in the future, and even fought with Babylon after coming to Yunshang, only to realize their mistakes?" ”