Verse Revelation 18:18. _WHAT_ CITY IS _LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY!_] Viz. in magnitude, power, and luxury....
AND CRIED ... - That is, as they had a deep interest in it, they would, on their own account, as well as hers, lift up the voice of lamentation.WHAT CITY IS LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY? - In her destruc...
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...
WHEN, &C.. as they looked upon (the texts read App-133.) UNTO. Omit. THIS. the....
_What city is like_&c. Ezekiel 27:32....
ΚΑΠΝΌΝ. A has τόπον. 18. ΤΊΣ ὉΜΟΊΑ … Ezekiel 27:32....
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...
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...
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! WHEN THEY SAW - [ horoutees (G3708); but 'Aleph (') A B C, Andreas, blepontes (G991), 'looking at;'...
__ 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 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...
(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...
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...
(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...
AND CRIED WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING,.... Revelation 18:9 SAYING, WHAT CITY IS LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY? as before for magnificence and grandeur, so now for sorrow, desolation, and ruin...
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What _city is_ like unto this great city! Ver. 18. _What city is like unto this_] _q.d._ Who would have ever thought we should ever have seen...
_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...
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...
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...
These features are so prominent that they are treated in another paragraph:...
AND CRIED WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, WHAT CITY IS LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY?...
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...
Ver. 18,19. We all know ship masters and sailors are persons that live by carrying merchants goods; and therefore, properly, the terms signify all such persons (of what rank and order soever) who get...
Revelation 18:18 and G2532 out G2896 (G5707) saw G3708 (G5723) smoke G2586 her G846 burning G4451 saying...
‘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, “...
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...
AS THEY LOOKED (βλεποντες). Present active participle of βλεπω. See οταν βλεπωσιν in verse Revelation 18:10.WHAT CITY IS LIKE THE GREAT CITY? (τις ομοια τη πολε τη μεγαληι;). No πολις with τις, b...
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...
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...
_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...
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 27:30; Isaiah 23:8; Isaiah 23:9; Jeremiah 51:37; Revela
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...