Thus the Catholic Church produces harlots, and so is the Mother of Harlots. Numerous problems abound. Hunt has again lurched to an absurdly literal interpretation. He should interpret the harlotry of the Whore's daughters as the same as their mother's, which is why she is called their mother in the first place. Instead Hunt gives the ridiculous interpretation of the daughters as literal, earthly prostitutes committing literal, earthly fornication.
Modern translations render it consistently.
This section of the book abounds with historical errors, not the least of which is his implication that the Church endorses the forced conversion of nations. The Church emphatically does not do so. But pagan Rome and apostate Jerusalem do fit the description of a city drunk with the blood of saints and the martyrs of Jesus. And since they were the notorious persecutors of Christians, the original audience would have automatically thought of one of these two as the city that persecutes Christians, not an undreamed of Christian Rome that was centuries in the future. This is a joke.