History on a Story Arc
Chapter 5 · Pathos

Revelation

How does the story end?

Abstract

Revelation tells the end of the plot in images. A city grows rich on a substitute, on securing the goal instead of reaching it, and the whole world trades with it. The fall comes from within: the system consumes what it was built to protect until it can no longer stand. The same fall releases those it consumed. Romans 9–11 told the end as history; Revelation shows its mechanism as an image, and no people or group is left as the one to blame.

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Figure 5. The fall from within
Figure 5. The city built on a substitute, its fall, and those released by it. Planned
Notes
  1. Revelation 17–18, translated from the Greek. — to verify

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Working material: The Same Fall, Told Twice (Revelation)