 | Stephen D. Cox - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 414 pages
...Revelation is a very repetitious book. Yet it makes even its redundancy effective. It describes Babylon as "the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" (Revelation 18:2). One would think that foul spirits were enough; why add birds to them? And why make... | |
 | Mireille Hadas-Lebel - Apocrypha - 2006 - 610 pages
...God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. (Rev. 16, 19) And he cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon the great...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (Rev. 18, 2) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,... | |
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And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 
