Note 578 — Footnotes.
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2 For 578true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath 579avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
2. For true and righteous are his judgments. That is, the calamities that come upon the power here referred to are deserved. ¶ For he hath judged the great whore. The power represented by the harlot. See Notes on ch. xvii. 1. ¶ Which did corrupt the earth with her fornication. See Notes on ch. xiv. 8; xvii. 2, 4, 5; xviii. 3. Comp. Notes on ch. ix. 21. ¶ And hath avenged the blood of his servants. See Notes on ch. xviii. 20, 24. ¶ At her hand. Shed by her hand.