Babylon the Great - Babylon the Great

Japanese: 大いなるバビロン - おおいなるばびろん
Babylon the Great - Babylon the Great

...After that, in the chaos of the 3rd century, the city of Rome ceased to be an actual imperial capital, but the idea of ​​Rome as a universalized entity continued to live on in the hearts of people. Even in the early Christian era, when Christianity predicted the downfall of Rome as "Babylon the Great," Melitōn, Bishop of Sardis in the 2nd century, put forward a philosophy that saw God's providence in the simultaneous establishment of peace by Augustus and the coming of Christ.
[The Rise of Late Antiquity]
In the later years of the Roman Empire, as the Germanic threat became more serious, faith in Rome as a symbol of civilization and order against the Germanic brutality and barbarism was rekindled, especially in the crisis that followed the defeat at Adrianople in 378.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Babylon the Great" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その後,3世紀の混乱のなかで都市ローマは現実の帝都ではなくなるが,こうして普遍化されたローマ理念は人々の心中に生き続ける。また,原始キリスト教時代には,ローマを〈大いなるバビロン〉としてその滅亡を預言したキリスト教においても,2世紀のサルディス司教メリトンMelitōnが,アウグストゥスによる平和の確立とキリスト降臨の同時性に神の摂理をみる哲学を打ち出した。
[古代末期における高揚]
 ローマ帝政後期になってゲルマンの脅威が深刻化してくると,ゲルマンの粗暴・野蛮に対する文明・秩序の象徴ローマへの信仰が再燃し,とくに378年アドリアノープルにおける敗戦以後の危機的状況のなかでその激しさを増す。…

※「大いなるバビロン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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