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What the Fathers say

Revelation 17:15

Eastern Fathers

Oecumenius

He says "the waters" on which "the prostitute sits are peoples and nations", on which the city, that is, holds the kingdom.

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Cyprian

Christ, who teaches and shows that the people of the Gentiles were coming into that place that the Jews had lost and that we were arriving afterward through the merit of faith, made wine from water, that is, he showed that the people of the Gentiles rather would resort together and come to the nuptials of Christ and of his church when the Jews were leaving. …

Epistle LXII.12-13 ↗