Code for babylon 97/28/2023 There are some strong reasons for accepting it. It was adopted by Jerome and Augustine and has been commonly accepted by the Church. This interpretation goes back at least to the time of Tertullian ( AdvMarc iii.13). In the Middle Ages Rome is frequently styled the Western Babylon. The sect of the Fraticelli, an eremitical organization from the Franciscans in the fourteenth century, who carried the vow of poverty to the extreme and taught that they were possessed of the Holy Spirit and exempt from sinfirst familiarized the common mind with the notion that Rome was the Babylon, the great harlot of the Book of Revelation. Tertullian, Irenaeus, and Jerome use Babylon as representing the Roman Empire.
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