Revelation 14:8

δεύτερος ἄγγελος. Tisch[482] has ἄγγ. δεύτ. with אc and C (δεύτερον) and P. א* omits ἄγγελος and everything from ἔπεσεν (pr.) to λέγων.

[482] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited.

τοῦ θυμοῦ. 1 96 Tyc[483] omit.

[483] Tyconius.

πεπότικεν. Tyc[484] read πέπωκαν as in Revelation 18:3; אc 12 Primas[485] πέπτωκαν; the latter copied Tyconius without noticing the difference of text.

[484] Tyconius.
[485] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.

8. ἔπεσεν ἔπεσεν. Isaiah 21:9.

Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη, as in Revelation 17:5. See also Revelation 18:10; Revelation 18:18; Revelation 18:21 where we have “Babylon the great city,” “the great city” (meaning Babylon), and “the great city Babylon.” The omission of city here makes the presumption less that “the great city” of Revelation 11:8; Revelation 16:19 is the same.

ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ θυμοῦ τῆς πορνείας. If the text be right, and if it be impossible to regard θυμοῦ as representing the Hebrew word translated “provocation,” 2 Kings 23:26, there is a blending of two views. Babylon makes the nations drink of the cup of her fornication; and she is made, and they are made with her (at first perhaps by her), to drink of the cup of God’s wrath: Revelation 14:10; Revelation 16:19. In Revelation 18:6 as in Jeremiah 51:7, from which the image is taken, there is, as probably here, a combination of the two.