εἴρηκαν. C has εἶπαν.

3. καὶ … ἀναβαίνει. Both the tense and the conjunction prove that the clause is part of the anthem.

εἰς … αἰώνων. Hence Tyconius, excerpted by the homilist ap. St Augustine, Tom. III. Hom. xviii., inferred that Babylon was more than any single city, being the world-wide mystical city of pride.

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