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 Apocalyptic Babylon is succeeded by the chanting of hymns both in heaven and on earth, saying: "Alleluia: for the Lord our God the Almighty hath reigned. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory unto Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His Bride hath prepared Herself."

What is figured in Daniel by the stone cut out without hands becoming a great mountain, and filling the whole earth, is figured in the Apocalypse by the proclamation of the reign of the Almighty, by the marriage of the Lamb, and the adornment of His Bride.

The kingdom of the stone cut out without hands signifies the Church of Christ and her kingdom. The Bride of the Lamb is undoubtedly the Church of Christ, and the adornment of this Bride signifies the glory and prosperity of the Catholic Church that is to ensue on the breaking up of the present secular organization of the earth, that is, on the destruction of Babylon. And as the metallic statue of Daniel figured the great empires that were successively to preside over the secular organization of the earth, so did Babylon (Apocalypse xvii. 9–12), seated on seven mountains, represent the same secular organization of mankind enthroned on its seven principal seats, When St. John saw his vision, the angel told him