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

In the provided quotations, the woman in Revelation 17 is understood to represent the Catholic Church or the apostate church. The beast, in this context, symbolizes civil or worldly power, upon which the church rides, and the papacy is seen as the final form or spiritual governance of this power. Accordingly, these sources speak of the woman as the church and the beast as the government or the papacy as the state-supporting head.

The Woman as 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 borne, and which she controls and directs to her own purposes, just as a rider guides the beast on which he sits.«

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

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Papal Church and Civil Powers

»The joyous, corrupted 'woman' and 'Babylon' of Revelation primarily represent the papal church, and the seven-headed beast upon which she rides represents 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 beast represents the papal church, borne upon the back of the Roman government. The beast that yet is, is the eighth head, and is the same papal form that existed before the fall of the papacy through the French.«

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

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