Adventistische Schriften über: "Does the woman in Revelation 17 represent the Catholic Church and the beast represent the papacy as a government?"

The provided quotes interpret the woman in Revelation 17 as representing the Catholic Church, or the apostate church, while the beast symbolizes the civil or secular power upon which the church rides. The papacy is seen as the final form or spiritual government of this power. Thus, these sources refer to both the woman as the church and the beast as the government, or the papacy as the state-sustaining head.

The woman as the papal church and the beast as civil power

»That this apostate woman, as she is represented in this chapter, is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church, is generally believed by Protestants. We here have the woman, the church, sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, the civil power, upon which she is kept, and which controls and guides her to its own purposes, as a rider does the beast upon which he rides.«

1 - Uriah Smith, Daniel and The Revelation (DAR1909 702.2)

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Popish church and civil powers

»The joyful, corrupt ‘woman’ and ‘Babylon’ of Revelation are primarily the papal church, and the seven-headed beast upon which she rides are the civil powers that support her.«

2 - LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 4 (PFF4 1127.1)

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The papal form of the beast

»The woman upon the scarlet-colored beast represents the papal church, which is borne upon the back of the Roman government. The beast that is, is the eighth head, and is the same papal form that existed before the fall of popery by the French.«

3 - Josiah Litch, The Probability of the Second Coming of Christ About A.D. 1843 (PSC 192.3)

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