Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. WAILING - `mourning.' THAT HAD SHIPS. A B 'Aleph (') C read, 'that had their ships; literally, 'the ships.' COSTLINESS - costly treasures: abstract for concrete. COSTLINESS - costly treasures: abstract for concrete....

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 subjects, while obedient to her; and the merchants, those who trafficked for her indulgences, pardons, and honours; these mourn. Babylon's friends partook her sinful pleasures and profits, but are not willing to share her plagues. The spirit of antichrist is a worldly spirit, and that sorrow is a mere worldly sorrow; they do not lament for the anger of God, but for the loss of outward comforts. The magnificence and riches of the ungodly will avail them nothing, but will render the vengeance harder to be borne. The spiritual merchandise is here alluded to, when not only slaves, but the souls of men, are mentioned as articles of commerce, to the destroying the souls of millions. Nor has this been p...

Verse Revelation 18:19. _THEY CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS_] They showed every sign of the sincerest grief. The lamentation over this great ruined city, Revelation 18:9, is exceedingly strong and well drawn. Here is no dissembled sorrow; all is real to the mourners, and affecting to the spectators....

AND THEY CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS - A common sign of lamentation and mourning among the Orientals. See the notes on Job 2:12. BY REASON OF HER COSTLINESS - The word rendered “costliness” - τιμιότητος timiotētos - means, properly, “preciousness, costliness”; their magnificence, costly merchandise. The luxury of a great city enriches many individuals, however much it may impoverish itself. FOR IN ONE HOUR IS SHE MADE DESOLATE - So it seemed to them. See the notes on Revelation 18:17....

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. Revelation 4:1; Revelation 7:1, etc.). The "mystery" of the beast and the harlot having been declared, the angel now describes the doom in store for them. The angel is _from heaven_,_ _as carrying the news of the judgment which is sent from heaven (cf. Revelation 10:1;...

AND THEY CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS,.... As the seafaring men on account of Tyre, Ezekiel 27:30 this was a gesture used in mourning when persons were in afflicted and distressed circumstances, denoting disorder, confusion, and debasement; see Joshua 7:6 AND CRIED, WEEPING AND WAILING, SAYING, ALAS, ALAS! THAT GREAT CITY; as in Revelation 18:10 so it was once, though now in flames: WHEREIN WERE MADE RICH ALL THAT HAD SHIPS IN THE SEA; not only the merchants of the earth, as in Revelation 18:3 the cardinals, archbishops, and bishops, but the governors of religious houses; these accumulated great

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 the whole system of apostate Christendom in its social and commercial aspect, the so-called “Christian civilization” in its final apostate condition and doom. Papal Rome in her short revival becomes the head of apostate Christendom and controls everything till her appointed doom comes upon her. While we saw in the preceding chapter the desolation of the whore by the ten kings and the beast, here we see how God views her and that He dethrones this system in His judgment. A strong angel comes down to announce her doom and to lay bare her inner and most awful corruption. A strong descending Angel whose glory lightened the earth, shows what the boasting thing, she, who bore the bless

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 classes. SOULS OF MEN: the Gr. phrase does not refer to what we mean when we use the term soul. It denotes simply the natural life. Lives of men would be the more exact rendering. The writer is alluding to the traffic in human life, whether in the form of slavery or immorality, or the brutal sports of the amphitheatre. Revelation 18:14. And the fruits: lit. and the ripe fruit of the desire of thy soul is gone from thee (Swete) and all thy rich and sumptuous things have perished. Just when the fruit of the labour of many generations seemed ready to fall into the mouth it had

THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...

THAT. the. WHEREIN. in (App-104.) which. SHIPS. the ships. BY REASON OF. Greek. _ek._ App-104. ONE HOUR. See Revelation 18:10 and compare Isaiah 47:11. Isa 18:17 and Jeremiah 50:26; Jeremiah 18:19 and Jeremiah 51:8. Ancient Babylon, after its capture by Cyrus, _gradually_ diminished. IS. was. MADE DESOLATE. See "come to nought", Revelation 18:17....