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And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

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Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Et tous les rois de la terre, qui se sont livrés avec elle à l'impudicité et au luxe, pleureront et se lamenteront à cause d'elle, quand ils verront la fumée de son embrasement.

KJV

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)

    propter timorem tormentorum ejus dicent: Vae, vae civitas illa magna Babylon, civitas illa fortis!» (Apoc. XVIII, 8-10.) Sed hi reges non loco sed affectu, nec corpore sed voluntate longe stabunt, quoniam cum ea pariter cremabuntur. Sicut ergo longe stare dicuntur, qui in eadem d…

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