The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

...authority. If we now wish to know who the Woman is, let us only consider and see clearly who sits upon the Beast and thus holds, as it were, the entire Supreme Authority—almost more so than the Beast itself, just as the rider is more than the horse. Now, it is indeed indisputable that the Pope in Rome should have all power and might in the whole world, for he has not only appointed and invested Emperors and Kings, but has also ruled all the world with his excommunication, with which he has forced everything into submission.

Such an abomination of the Pope's whoredom In this apocalyptic context, "whoredom" or "fornication" refers to spiritual corruption and the pursuit of worldly power by a religious entity. began after the time when the external persecutions of the Christians ceased, and the inner spiritual abominations began: the "son of perdition" who has set himself in the Temple of God as a GOD of the Earth and the ruler over all the world. This time began properly with the abomination of desolation under Pope Sylvester, who received the "Donation" from Constantine The "Donation of Constantine" was a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope. It was used for centuries to justify papal claims to temporal power.; and thus, of course, the whoredom began, when all the world clung to the Pope, and had to cling to him, both in the secular and spiritual estates, as no man can deny.

However, neither the Whore nor the Beast can be understood as referring to the Turk The Ottoman Empire, for he is already described with his own abomination and destruction against the sanctuary in Daniel, chapter 8, as already mentioned. Furthermore, it can never be proven that all the world should have "committed whoredom" with the Turk; rather, it was the Pope, or all the world with the Pope—especially before the time that a Turkish Empire even existed on Earth. And what shall we say? The Papists will be able neither to deny nor reject this, neither now nor before: that the Pope should have greater power and might on Earth than anyone else, since they themselves exalt him above everyone, and thus sufficiently betray themselves in this matter.

So one may also see that the seven heads and ten kings belong to the Roman Empire and the Pope, which truly have not belonged to the Turk, and much less belong to him now. Indeed, it does not require much proof, for all Papists confess with mouth and heart that the Pope is the head over all, and Christ's Vicar term: Stadthalter (Vicar/Representative). The official title "Vicar of Christ" implies the Pope acts as the earthly representative of Jesus., according to whom the whole world should regulate itself. I believe this is the mystery written on her forehead, namely: the Great Babylon, the Mother of Whoredoms and of all abominations on Earth. For she herself, the Whore, confesses that all the world should allow themselves to be reformed by her, so that even the Emperors and Kings must receive their fiefs from the Whore. I believe it is true that the Whore [sits] on many waters...