43 The praise in 19:1-4 is related not mainly to the fall of material Babylon but to the fall of religious Babylon, because in the eyes of God religious Babylon is more hateful than material Babylon.
5五 神要审判巴比伦到一个地步,叫属巴比伦的事物没有一样存留在宇宙中:
5E God will judge Babylon to such an extent that nothing of Babylon will remain in the universe:
72 When God destroys both the religious and the political Babylon at the end of the age, that will be the end of the judgment on Babylon prophesied in chapters 50 and 51.
83 Babylon the Great will be destroyed, removed from the earth, and cast into the lake of fire, and the New Jerusalem will be brought in to be the prominent center of God’s eternal kingdom in the new heaven and new earth—Rev. 11:15; 21:2,10-11.
17Further Reading: CWWL, 1972, vol. 1, “The Four Men in the Bible,” ch. 9; CWWL, 1972, vol. 1, “The Living and Practical Way to Enjoy Christ,” chs. 7-8