And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
A - `one.'
Millstone. Compare the judgment on Egypt at the Red Sea (; ; ), and the doom of Babylon, the world-power ().
With violence - `with impetus.' This prophecy is regarded as still to be fulfilled.
Verse Revelation 18:21. _THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE_ _THROWN DOWN_] This action is finely and forcibly expressed by the original words: Οὑτως ὁρμηματι βληθησεται Βαβυλων ἡ...
AND A MIGHTY ANGEL - See the notes on Revelation 18:1. This seems, however, to have been a different angel from the one mentioned in Revelation 18:1, though, like that, he is described as having great...
CHAPTER 18 Revelation 18:1 . Babylon is now seen under another aspect. In the former chapter we have the religious center of Rome and her wicked idolatries, in the present chapter it includes also th...
THE REJOICING IN HEAVEN OVER THE FALL OF ROME. Revelation 18:20. judged your judgement: vindicated the cause of the Christian Church against Rome. REVELATION 18:21. TOOK UP A STONE: a symbolical act...
And a strong angel lifted a stone like a great mill-stone, and cast it into the sea. "Thus, he said, "with a rush Babylon the great city will be cast down, and will never again be found. The sound of...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
LIKE. as it were. INTO. App-104. VIOLENCE. furious rush. Greek. _hormema._ Only here. Revised Version reads "mighty fall". Compare Acts 14:5 (assault. Greek. _horme)_. THAT.. the. NO MORE AT ALL....
_a mighty angel_ Lit., ONE STRONG ANGEL. _cast it into the sea_&c. Jeremiah 51:63-64. _with violence_ Lit., WITH A RUSH or DASH. R. V. "with a mighty fall....
ἸΣΧΥΡῸΣ ΛΊΘΟΝ. א* has λίθον ἰσχυρόν. A Syr[679] Tyc[680] omit ἰσχυρός. [679] Syriac. [680] Tyconius. ὩΣ ΜΎΛΟΝ ΜΈΓΑΝ. א has ὡς λίθον μἑγαν, AC ὡς μύλινον (C μυλικὸν) μέγαν. 21. ΚΑῚ ἜΒΑΛΕΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. Jer...
THE REJOICING OVER HER IN HEAVEN...
_GREAT JOY AT THE SIGHT OF BABYLON'S RUIN -- REVELATION 18:20-24:_ The righteous were affected very differently by the fall of Rome. God's people were to celebrate the fact that He had executed vengea...
ΉΡΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ Α'ΊΡΩ (G142) поднимать. ΜΎΛΙΝΟΣ (G3458) жернов (ABD, 4:831-32). ΈΒΑΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΌΡΜΗΜΑ...
A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE, &C.— Farther to confirm the sudden fall and irrecoverable destruction of Rome, an emblem is given, similar to that in Jeremiah 51:63. _A mighty angel casteth a milstone...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 60 Text Revelation 18:21-24 21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVIII BABYLON IS FALLEN _Text (Revelation 18:1-24)_ 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was light...
__ Temple Section-Babylon's Destruction 16 "Gilded" seems to be a figure for all mere outward show, for it is with gold, and precious stones and pearls. 21 In the East the millstone is used to grin...
THE FALL OF BABYLON In the last c., the fall of Rome, and the manner of its fall, were prophetically announced. In this c., the greatness of the tragedy is shown by songs of thanksgiving and of lamen...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 THE FUNERAL OF BABYLON - REVELATION 18:1-24 V1 Then I saw another *angel come down from heaven. This *angel had great power. The...
THE IRREMEDIABLE OVERTHROW OF BABYLON SYMBOLICALLY DECLARED. (21) AND A MIGHTY ANGEL... — The taking up of the stone and casting it into the waters is a symbol drawn from Jeremiah (Jeremiah 51). Jerem...
CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF BABYLON. Revelation 18:1. BABYLON has fallen. We have now the Divine proclamation of her fate, and the lamentation of the world over the doom to which she has been consigne...
Revelation 18:21-24 : a rhythmic song of doom, introduced by a symbolic action partly imitated from Jeremiah 51:63-64....
Rome's fall will be irrevocable and sudden and violent, as a powerful angel shows dramatically by seizing a huge boulder and flinging it into the sea. _Cf._ the analogous description of Babylon's coll...
FALLEN LIKE A STONE INTO THE SEA Revelation 18:14 This section delineates the utter desolation which will ensue when the judgments of God have finished their mission against professing but unfaithful...
The vision of the destruction of Babylon as directly resulting from the government of God is now given. It is announced, "Fallen is Babylon." Her condition is described as that of a habitation of demo...
Here we have a symbolic representation of the harlot's destruction. A great millstone would be the one turned by animals in contrast to one women turned by hand. A mighty angel (Compare Revelation 5:2...
(13) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all....
(21) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. (2...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
Babylon Has Fallen Psalms 13:2...How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (NKJV) Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long will You look on?... (NKJV) Psalms 74:10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Wil...
Chapter 18 announces the judgment. The one difficulty here is Verse 4 (Revelation 18:4), coming where it is; but, as every difficulty in scripture, it leads into further light. The destruction of Baby...
AND A MIGHTY ANGEL,.... Not Christ, nor one of the ministering spirits, but some man or set of men, perhaps the same with him in Revelation 18:1 TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT IN...
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast _it_ into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. Ver....
_The merchants, ship-masters, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, weep and wail_ For they can no longer import or export commodities for her, or convey strangers to and fro, for there is an end...
TOOK UP A STONE-CAST IT INTO THE SEA; an allusion to Jeremiah 51:63-64....
The punishment completed:...
AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN AND SHALL BE FOUND NO MORE AT ALL....
GOD'S JUDGMENT OF GREAT BABYLON In Revelation 17:1 we have seen that the destruction of Great Babylon is by the hand of the Beast and his ten horns. Now, in Revelation 18:1, the judgment is seen to be...
_ 21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore._ A....
20-24 That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, is matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who are honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous m...
AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA; for a sign or symbol of the irreparable ruin of Rome, signified by that great millstone which had ground to powder...
Revelation 18:21 Then G2532 a G1520 mighty G2478 angel G32 up G142 (G5656) stone G3037 like G5613 great...
‘And a strong angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon the great city be cast down and shall be found no more at al...
Revelation 18:21. AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE AS A GREAT MILLSTONE AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA. A symbolic representation of the destruction of Babylon is to be given; and for this new vision a th...
A STRONG ANGEL (εις αγγελος ισχυρος). Here εις = a, just an indefinite article, not "one" as a numeral.TOOK UP (ηρεν). First aorist active indicative of αιρω.AS IT WERE A GREAT MILLSTONE (ως μυλ...
May the Spirit of God take away the veil from our eyes while we read what was revealed to the beloved apostle John! Here we have the prophecy of the destruction of the great anti-Christian system of B...
We have no difficulty in knowing to what city this great Babylon refers, for the Church of Rome, in the plenitude of its wisdom, has taken the title to itself in attempting to claim that Peter was the...
CONTENTS: Last form of apostate Christendom and the warning to God's people. The human and the angelic views of Babylon. CONCLUSION: As there is to be an ecclesiastical Babylon («confusion») heading u...
Revelation 18:1. _Another angel came down from heaven and the earth was lightened with his glory._ This was an angel of the highest order, _having great power._ It may be the Lord himself, the mission...
THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL. The large stone is _thrown down_ to the bottom of the sea where no one can retrieve it! This is symbolic that Babylon will be found "never again!" [God continually judges "society...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:21 Compare Jeremiah 51:63. ⇐...
Another voice from heaven bids the people of God to come out of her, for her sins have reached unto heaven. God's people must ever be a separate people, not conformed to the world, but transformed. Th...
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 18:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _after _[omitting "and"]… _coming down, _etc. The usual form of introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelat...
CHAPTER 18 - BABYLON THE GREAT EXPLAINED The focus of the previous chapter was about the judgment of the harlot religious system that rode the Beast. The main focus of this chapter will be about the j...
_21 AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL BE FOUND NO MORE AT ALL._...
Now after these things I saw another angel (Revelation 18:1) It may be one of the seven. It doesn't really declare or it could be outside of the seven. It is just another angel as far as we know. com...
Daniel 11:19; Exodus 15:5; Ezekiel 26:21; Jeremiah 51:63; Jeremia
A mighty angel [ε ι ς α γ γ ε λ ο ς ι σ χ υ ρ ο ς]. Lit., "one strong angel." A great millstone. See on Matthew 18:6. With violence [ο ρ μ η μ α τ ι]. Lit. with an impulse or rush. Only here in the N...
MYSTIC AND COMMERCIAL BABYLON Revelation 17:1 _and Revelation 18:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth presents commer...
And a mighty angel took up a stone, and threw it into the sea — By a like emblem Jeremiah fore — showed the fall of the Chaldean Babylon, Jeremiah 51:63....
Observe here, 1. BABYLON'S utter desolation represented by the type and sign of. millstone cast into the sea; like. millstone she had ground and oppressed the church of God, and now, like. millstone t...