was Babylon a code name for Rome?

Question

we have no evidence that Peter was in Babylon on the Euphrates

Answer 1

I'm not sure how Peter relates to Babylon, but I can say that Babylon was most certainly code for Rome in John's Revelation, and stands for the iniquity with which early Christians attributed to the Roman world.

In Rev 17, the "whore of Babylon" almost surely refers to Rome, since she is "seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication..." Here, the reference is to both the conquest of the Romans who have suborned all the other kings of the world. Later in the same chapter she is "drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus", which refers to the early Roman persecution of Christians. Finally, she is described as being carried to a beast with seven heads and seven horns. In case we don't get the reference, the book itself interprets this image as: "the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated" a reference to the seven hills of Rome.

In Revelation 13, the number of the beast (666) has also been theorized to be code for Emperor Nero, whose name in Greek (Neronis) conforms to a numerological pattern of 666. At the time of the early church, the idea that Nero was still alive and would come back to destroy Rome with armies from the east was quite prevalent among both Christians and non-Christians.

Answer 2

Babylon (in Arabic: بابل; in Syriac: ܒܒܙܠ in Hebrew:בבל) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq), the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Baghdad. The form Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of the god(s)", translating Sumerian KA2.DINGIR.RA). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. In the Bible, the name appears as בבל (Babel), interpreted by Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion", from the verb balal, "to confuse".

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Answer 3

Are you waaaaay off the mark?

Babylon was in present day Iraq!

And where does it say that Peter was there?

Cheers!

Simon Templar