at chapter, where are the words:

You shall speak this parable about the king of Babel (verse 4);

(Then), I will cut off the name and remnant of Babel (verse 22);

it is plain from this that this Babel is Lucifer, of whom it is said:

How you have fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! ... For
you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the
congregation, at the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will be like the Most High (Isa 14:12-14).

It is well known that the same persons invoke the dead and pray to them
for help. We make the assertion because such invocation was established
by a papal bull, confirming the decree of the Council of Trent, in which
it is openly said that the dead are to be invoked. Yet who does not know
that only God is to be invoked, and not any dead person?

[3] It shall be told now why the Lord has permitted such things. Can one
deny that He has done so for the sake of the end in view, namely
salvation? For men know that there is no salvation without the Lord.
Therefore it was necessary that the Lord should be preached from the Word
and that the Christian Church should be established by this means. This
could be done, however, only by leaders who would act with zeal and no
others offered than those who burned with zeal out of self-love. At first
this fire aroused them to preach the Lord and teach the Word. From this
their first state Lucifer is called "the son of the morning" (14:12).
But as they saw that they could dominate by means of the sanctities of
the Word and the church, the self-love by which they were first aroused
to preach the Lord broke out from within and finally exalted itself to
such a height that they transferred all the Lord's divine power to
themselves, leaving Him none.

[4] This could not be prevented by the Lord's divine providence, for if
it had been they would have declared that the Lord is not God and that
the Word is not sacred and would have made themselves Socinians and
Arians, so would have destroyed the whole church. But, whatever its
rulers are, the church continues among the people submissive to them. For
all in this religion who approach the Lord and shun evils as sins are
saved; therefore many heavenly societies are formed from them in the
spiritual world. It has also been provided that there should be a nation
among them