Her feet go down to death
The ways in which she walks, and in which she leads others, issue
oftentimes in corporeal death; and always in eternal death, if
grace prevent not; and unless men are brought to a sense of sin,
to repent of it and leave it. The Septuagint and Arabic versions
render it, "the feet of imprudence" or "folly", in opposition to
wisdom; that is, the feet of the foolish woman, such an one the
harlot is; and such is the whore of Rome, notwithstanding all her
boasted knowledge and wisdom. And into perdition, or the lake
which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death,
she goes herself, and hither she brings all that follow her
idolatrous practices, ( Revelation
17:8 ) ( 19:20 ) (
21:8 ) ; her
steps take hold on hell;
make sure of it; hell is the certain portion of the harlot, and
of all those that follow her lewd courses, unless reclaimed by
the grace of God; and this will be the case of the worshippers of
antichrist, or who give into the idolatries of the church of
Rome, or commit fornication with her, ( Revelation
14:9-11 ) . Or, "her steps support hell" F8; keep
it up, and fill it with inhabitants; millions are carried into it
by her means: or, reach unto hell; she stops not till she comes
there, and her followers with her. The word may be rendered "the
grave", and may respect such whores who haunted burying places,
and prostituted themselves among the graves; and were called from
hence "bustuariae moechae" F9.