And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Ver. 9. And, behold, here cometh a chariot o men.] Or, Behold, even now are gone in - that is Cyrus and Darius as Isa 21:7 have broken into the town, and surprised it.
And he answered and said.] He - that is, the watchman - numinis quodam afflatu commotus, by a divine instinct. or rather God himself.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen.] That is, Shall fall, certo, cito, penitus, certainly, speedily, utterly - ruit alto a culmine Troia. So shall shortly mystical Babylon, Rev 18:8-19 as the Jesuits themselves, Ribera and A Lapide, confess; only they say this shall be toward the end of the world, when Rome shall become idolatrous, as though it were not so now. But what said Petrarch long since? There yet standeth near at hand a second Babylon, cito itidem casura, si vos essetis viri, which would soon be down, would you but stand up as men.