18:2 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
no one has as yet had to bewail the downfall of Babylon.[145]
18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that all of you be not partakers of her sins, and that all of you receive not of her plagues.
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
And the kings of the earth shall weep and lament themselves for her, who have committed fornication with her, and have been conversant in her sins."[583]