To establish it in Holland, William the
Silent and his heroic Dutch had to fight the
Pope of Rome and the King of Spain many
and many a bloody year; and after he had
established it the Pope and King were so bent
on vengeance, that they had him assassinated
in his own home, in the boson of his family.
Daddy Noll should be more careful how he
drops into “history:” he doesn't know much
about it.
Continuing to illumine his mind with edi
fying facts, Mr. Noll says—
St. Peter was bishop of Rome. St. Peter wrote
his first epistle from Rome (I. Peter 5, 13), Call
ing it by the name Babylon. “From the time of
the Neronian persecution this usage was common’’
(Standard Dictionary of Bible, Funk & Wagnails,
1909, Art. Peter). We find the same name ap
plied to pagan Rome, by St. John in the Apocalypse
XVIL, 5. Peter was not in the Assyrian Babylon,
which had fallen to desolation before his day.
Pagan Rome, with its grasping power, crushing
the independece of the Jewish nation, was the new
Babylon of the West. That Rome is the Babylon
of Peter’s Epistle, is quite agreed by the best
scholars, Catholic and non-Catholic. Among the
latter are “Ellicott’s Commentary’’ and the
“Speaker’s Commentary,” which says: “We find
an absolute consensus of ancient interpreters that
there Babylon must be understood as equivalent
to Rome.”
Peter says that he writes from Babylon, but
Noll says he meant Rome.
If Peter had said Pome, would lie have
meant Babylon?
If Peter was at Rome, wdiy couldn’t he
say so?
What did he go and date his letter from.
