That seven chapters of the Revelation treat of the perverted state of the Church among the Reformed, and two chapters of the perverted state of the Church among the Roman Catholics, and that the states of both Churches as existing at the present day are condemned, has been shown in the exposition of this book in a work entitled THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED; and this, not by uncertain conjectures, but with full proofs. By the dragon, treated of in the twelfth chapter, are meant those in the Reformed Churches who make God into three and the Lord into two, and who separate charity from faith by making faith spiritual and saving, not charity; see nos. 532-565, and the memorable experience adjoined, n. 566. They are further described by the two beasts, one rising out of the sea and the other out of the earth, as related in chap. xiii; see nos. 567-610, and the memorable experience, n. 611. They are further described by the locusts which came forth out of the pit of the abyss, as mentioned in chap. ix; see nos. 419-442. This same faith, when confirmed, is meant by the great city which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where the two faithful witnesses were slain, as related in chap. xi; see nos. 485-530, particularly nos. 500-503, and the memorable experience, n. 531. They are also meant by the pit of the abyss out of which issued smoke as from a furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened, and then locusts came forth, as described in chap. ix; see nos. 421-424.