Angels of Warning, Revelation 14:8-11

8. another angel The correct text is another angel a second.

Babylon … that great city Read Babylon the great 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.

is fallen, is fallen Isaiah 21:9.

because she made Read, which hath made.

the wine of the wrath of her fornication There is a blending of the two views: she makes them drink of the cup of her fornication, Revelation 17:2, and she is made, and they are made with 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 here, a combination of the two.

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