Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Revelation 18:17
In one hour; that is, suddenly. The term denotes rather the surprisal of this judgment, than the short space of time within which it should be effected.
In one hour; that is, suddenly. The term denotes rather the surprisal of this judgment, than the short space of time within which it should be effected.
REVELATION 18:17 o` evpi. to,pon ple,wn {B} The reading o` evpi. to,pon ple,wn (“he who sails for (any) part”) is strongly supported by A C about 100 minuscules, including 1006 1854, it61 vg, as well...
Verse Revelation 18:17. _EVERY SHIPMASTER_] Captains of vessels; some think _pilots_ are meant, and this is most likely to be the meaning of the original word κυβερνητης. This description appears to b...
FOR IN ONE HOUR - In a very brief period - so short, that it seemed to them to be but one hour. In the prediction Revelation 18:8, it is said that it would be “in one day” (see the notes on that place...
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...
REVELATION 18:13. CINNAMON: probably not the spice now called by that name but an unguent or cosmetic used as a perfume. CHARIOTS: a fashionable kind of equipage much used in Rome by the wealthy class...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
And every shipmaster and everyone who sails the sea, and sailors who gain their living from the sea, stood afar off and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning. "What city was like the great cit...
IN ONE HOUR. See Revelation 18:19. COME, &C As "made desolate", Revelation 18:18. ALL... SHIPS. The texts read "every one that saileth any whither", indicating travellers of all kinds. TRADE... SEA...
_is come to nought_ Lit., IS MADE DESOLATE. _all the company in ships_ Read with R. V., AND EVERYONE THAT SAILETH ANY WHITHER. The words will probably stand for the merchants travelling in ships with...
ἘΠῚ ΤΌΠΟΝ ΠΛΈΩΝ. B2 has ἐπὶ τὸν τ. πλ.; P ἐπὶ τῶν πλοίων πλέων. Text. Rec[670] ἐπὶ τῶν πλοίων ὁ ὄμιλος with 1 Hipp[671] An[672][673]. [670] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [671] St Hipp...
THE LAMENTATION OVER HER ON EARTH...
_A GREAT LAMENTATION BY SHIPMASTERS AND SAILORS REVELATION 18:17-19:_ In a single hour the power of Rome would be lost and all her vast wealth wiped out. All ship captains, pilots, and navigators and...
ΉΡΗΜΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΈΡΗΜΌΩ (G2049) превращать в пустыню, опустошать, ΚΥΒΕΡΝΉΤΗΣ (G2942) тот, кто ведет судно, рулевой, лоцман. Рулевой управлял обоими рулями, держа их параллельно друг другу...
AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, &C.— In the very solemn manner described in the verses before us, by an angel, and by a voice from heaven, is declared the fall of Rome, and her destruction by fire; and th...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 59 Text Revelation 18:1-20 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cr...
_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...
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, IS COME TO NOUGHT - `is desolated.'...
__ 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...
18:17 place, (e-22) To any particular place; as we say now, chartered for such or such a place, or sailing to the place....
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 LAMENT OF THE SHIPMASTERS (Revelation 18:17). — On the whole passage read Ezekiel 27:32, &c. (17, 18) AND EVERY SHIPMASTER.... — Or, better, And every shipmaster, and every one who sails for a pla...
(15-17) THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS... — The description is resumed. The merchants stand like the kings (see Revelation 18:10) afar off, because of the fear of her torment, saying, “Woe! woe! (or, a...
(4-20) The voice out of heaven warns the faithful to leave her, and describes her fall....
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...
ἐργάζονται κ. τ. λ. = “whose business is on the sea”. The passage reflects the importance of Rome especially for the trade of the Levant. Pliny (_H. N._ vi. 101, xii. 84) gives the large figures of Or...
Revelation 18:9-20 : the wailing on earth, by kings (Revelation 18:9-10), merchants (at length, 11 16), and seafaring men (Revelation 18:17-20), imitated from the finer and more elaborate passag
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...
a There was nothing the merchants could do but stand fearfully in the distance and mourn their own loss of a great customer. Like the prodigal who had many friends while the money lasted (Luke 15:13-1...
(11) For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, (11) The manner of mourning used...
(9) And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, (10) Standing afar of...
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...
FOR IN ONE HOUR SO GREAT RICHES IS COME TO NOUGHT,.... That is, in a very short time, expressing the suddenness and speediness of Rome's destruction, the quick dispatch and expedition that will be mad...
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, Ver. 17. _So great riches come to noug...
_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...
ALAS, ALAS; showing the vast interests which multitudes of the votaries of wealth, fashion, and pleasure had in her continuance, and their disappointment, sorrow, vexation, and despair at her downfall...
This description of the articles in which Babylon trafficked with the nations, and the lamentation of the kings and merchants of the earth over her fall, agrees in many respects with the prophecy of t...
These features are so prominent that they are treated in another paragraph:...
FOR IN ONE HOUR SO GREAT RICHES IS COME TO NAUGHT. AND EVERY SHIPMASTER AND ALL THE COMPANY IN SHIPS AND SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE BY SEA, STOOD AFAR OFF,...
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...
_ 17 For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.’ Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance 18 and cried out when they saw the smok...
9-19 The mourners had shared Babylon's sensual pleasures, and gained by her wealth and trade. The kings of the earth, whom she flattered into idolatry, allowing them to be tyrannical over their subje...
Revelation 18:17 For G3754 one G3391 hour G5610 great G5118 riches G4149 nothing G2049 (G5681) G2532 Every
‘And every ship's captain, and everyone who sails anywhere, and seamen, and as many as gain their living by the sea, stood afar off, and cried out as they looked on the smoke of her burning, saying, “...
‘The merchants of these things who were made rich by her will stand far off for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, saying, “Woe, woe, the great city. She who was arrayed in fine linen, and pu...
LAMENTATION OVER BABYLON THE GREAT BY THE SELF-SEEKERS (REVELATION 18:9). We have witnessed the fall of Babylon the Great, now we witness the ‘grief' of her ‘friends'. The kings, the merchants and the...
SHIPMASTER (κυβερνητης). Old word (from κυβερναω, to steer), helmsman, sailing-master, in N.T. only here and Acts 27:11. Subordinate to the ναυκληρος (supreme commander).THAT SAILETH ANY WHITHER ...
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...
ALL THE SHIP CAPTAINS. Those who make their fortune by the sea (exporters, importers, fishermen, pearl-divers, etc.). They throw dust on their heads as a sign of sorrow and grief. AND IN ONE HOUR SHE...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:9 Laments come from kings, merchants, and sailors who profited from Babylon’s power and wealth. ⇐...
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...
_15 THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS, WHICH WERE MADE RICH BY HER, SHALL STAND AFAR OFF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT, WEEPING AND WAILING,_ _ 16 AND SAYING, ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, THAT WAS CLOTHE...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 27:27; Isaiah 23:14; Isaiah 47:9; Jeremiah 51:8; Jonah 1:6;...
Shipmaster [κ υ β ε ρ ν η τ η ς]. From kubernaw to govern. Strictly, steersman. Only here and Acts 27:11. All the company in ships [π α ς ε π ι τ ω ν π λ ο ι ω ν ο ο μ ι λ ο ς]. The best texts substi...
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...
The last sort of mourners for BABYLON'S ruin are sailors and seamen; all spiritual seamen that have an oar in St. Peter's boat shall lament greatly, whose life and livelihood did depend upon the merch...