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The stone here is a
another example of a commonplace of the Old Testament: the acted parable. A parallel passage is found in Jeremiah:
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(Jer 51:63-64
NIV) When you finish reading this
scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. {64} Then say, 'So
will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring upon
her. And her people will fall.'" The words of Jeremiah end here.
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There will be no
more ... in that city:
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• No more pleasure
(for which some of us live)
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• No more work (for
which others live)
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• No more light
(symbolic of thought, for which a few of us live)
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• No more marriage,
or family (for which others of us live)
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The city is clearly
not just Rome, or just the Roman Catholic Church. We know this from the last verse. Jesus applied similar words to Jerusalem:
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(Mat 23:37 NIV) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill
the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather
your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you
were not willing.
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This city represents
all those who say they are Christians -- and prostitute themselves in such.
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