For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Ver. 3. For all nations] All Roman Catholics.
The merchants of the earth] καπηλευειν. The Popish emissaries that huckster the word and make merchandise of men's souls, 2 Peter 2:3, after they have taken them prisoners, and made prizes of them, 2 Timothy 3:6, αιχμαλωτιζοντες .
Through the abundance of her delicacies] στρηνους, or, of her insolencies. Proh pudor! haec res est tote notissima caelo, sang Petrarch 200 years since, speaking of the luxury and insolency of the court of Rome.