Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Revelation 18:5
have, hath. Omit.
reached. The texts read "joined" or "built together".
unto. up to.
God. App-98.
iniquities. App-128.
have, hath. Omit.
reached. The texts read "joined" or "built together".
unto. up to.
God. App-98.
iniquities. App-128.
Verse Revelation 18:5. _HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN_] They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice....
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN - So in Jeremiah 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, “For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.” The meaning is not that the s...
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 18:1. ANOTHER ANGEL: we have no means of identifying this angel of doom. Revelation 18:2. habitation. bird: _ cf_. Isaiah 13:21 f;...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
I heard another voice from heaven saying: "Come out, my people, from her, lest you become partners in her sins, and lest you share in her plagues, because her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God...
_have reached_ Lit., HAVE CLEAVED TOGETHER....
ἘΚΟΛΛΉΘΗΣΑΝ. Vg[643] Cyp[644] Primas[645] read _pervenerunt_, Tyc[646] _adscenderunt_, Text. Rec[647] ἠκολούθησαν. [643] Vulgate. [644] St Cyprian as quoted by Haussleiter. [645] Primasius, edited by...
HER PRIDE AND SUDDEN FALL...
_AN ANGEL PROCLAIMING THE FALL OF BABYLON REVELATION 18:1-8:_ The appearance of the angel shows that something great is about to happen. This angel possesses great authority, radiance and splendor. Hi...
ΈΚΟΛΛΉΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΟΛΛΆΩ (G2853) прикрепляться, соединяться. Имеется в виду "будут ложиться один на другой, пока не достигнут неба, пока возрастающая куча не станет высотой до небес" (S...
I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL, &C.— After the account of the state and condition of spiritual Babylon, here follows a description of her fall and destruction, in the same sublime and figurative style as Isaiah,...
_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...
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...
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. HER SINS - as a great heap. REACHED - `so far as to cleave unto' [ ekolleetheesan (G2853), 'Aleph (') A B C, for ee...
18:5 another (g-9) Lit. 'joined together.'...
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...
REMEMBERED] cp. Revelation 16:19....
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...
(4-20) The voice out of heaven warns the faithful to leave her, and describes her fall....
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED... — Better, _For her sins have reached as far as heaven._ The idea is of a great heap firmly fastened, and towering, like another Babel, as far as heaven. (Comp. 2 Chronicle...
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...
Plutarch (_de sera uindict_. 15) is strong upon the solidarity of a city, which is liable to be punished at any time for past offences. κολλᾶσθαι (“Heaped up to the sky are her sins”) in the familiar...
A song of exulting in heaven, addressed first to the faithful (Revelation 18:4) and then (Revelation 18:6) to the enemies who execute God's vengeance....
“HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN” Revelation 18:1 We have seen that the scarlet woman represents the false religion of human wit and fashion. It is found in every age. There is not a city, town, or...
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...
For her sins have (a) reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. (a) He uses a word which signifies the following of sins one after another, and rising one of another in such sort,...
(4) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (5) For her sins have reached unto heaven,...
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 HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN,.... Or "have followed unto heaven"; one after another, in one age after another, until they have been as it were heaped up together, and have reached the heavens...
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Ver. 5. _For her sins have reached_] Gr. ηκολουθησαν, have followed thick or been thwacked one upon another, thick and t...
_And I heard another voice from heaven_ Probably the voice of Christ, graciously warning his people of their danger of being infected by the prevailing corruptions of the mystical Babylon, and, in con...
HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN; compare Jeremiah 51:9....
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN, AND GOD HATH REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES....
The warning voice from heaven:...
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...
_ 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities._ A. God knows who has shared a role in immoral activity. B. God will remember their sins. Men will be judged by the de...
1-8 The downfal and destruction of the mystical Babylon are determined in the counsels of God. Another angel comes from heaven. This seems to be Christ himself, coming to destroy his enemies, and to...
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN; that is, the cry of her sins; according to what is said of Sodom, (one of the types of antichrist), GENESIS 18:20,21. AND GOD HATH REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES; the...
Revelation 18:5 For G3754 her G846 sins G266 reached G190 (G5656) (G5625) G2853 (G5681) to...
‘And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, “Come forth, my people, out of her so that you have no fellowship with her sins and so that you do not receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached...
THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON THE GREAT (CHAPTER 18). The Fall of Babylon the Great (Revelation 18:1). We now have in more detail an explanation of the mystery of the prostitute. The connections between...
Revelation 18:5. So multiplied were her sins that they were heaped together as a mass reaching EVEN UNTO HEAVEN. The figure is taken from Jeremiah 51:9 (comp. Genesis 18:20)....
HAVE REACHED (εκολληθησαν). First aorist passive (deponent) indicative of κολλαω, old verb (from κολλα, gluten, glue), to cleave to, to join one another in a mass "up to heaven" (αχρ του ουρανου)....
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
AND GOD REMEMBERS HER WICKED WAYS. It may look like God has forgotten, but he has not!...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:1 Several speakers explain how the beast and the kings desert the prostitute. ⇐...
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...
_4 AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES._ _ 5 FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVE...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:9; Ezra 9:6; Genesis 18:20; Genesis 18:21; Jeremiah 5
Have reached [η κ ο λ ο υ θ η σ α ν]. Lit., followed. But the best texts read ejkollhqhsan clave. Compare Jeremiah 51:9. For different applications of the verb see on Matthew 19:5; Luke 14:15;...
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...
Even to heaven — An expression which implies the highest guilt....
Observe here, 1. The reason assigned why Almighty God inflicted such severe punishments upon BABYLON, because HER SINS, that is, the cry and clamour of her sins, HAD REACHED UP TO HEAVEN, the measure...