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 21-24. These verses complete the picture of desolation brought upon the rich and powerful city. She shall be destroyed to remain forever but a heap of ruins, be cause through her have all nations been deceived "and in her is found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." The blood of martyrs throughout the empire is justly chargeable to Rome from which went forth the decrees of persecution.