Revelation 18:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! ”

• Revelation 18:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 wealth...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  when, &c. . as they looked upon (the texts read App-133.) unto. Omit. this . the.

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• Revelation 18:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! What city is like unto this great city! - Viz. in magnitude, power, and luxury.

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• Revelation 18:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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;...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! When they saw - х horoutees ( G3708 ); but 'Aleph (') A B C, Andreas, blepontes ( G9...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 la...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (4-20) The voice out of heaven warns the faithful to leave her, and describes her fall.

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• Revelation 18:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF BABYLON. Revelation 18:1-24 . 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...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Fallen Like a Stone into the Sea Revelation 18:14-24 This section delineates the utter desolation which will ensue when the judgments of God have finished their mission against professing but u...

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• Revelation 18:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 dem...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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 o...

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• Revelation 18:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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, a...

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• Revelation 18:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 s...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Revelation 18:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  God's Judgment of Great Babylon In Revelation 17:1-18 we have seen that the destruction of Great Babylon is by the hand of the Beast and his ten horns. Now, in Revelation 18:1-24 , the judgment...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Fall of Babylon. A. D.  95.       9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Lamentation over Babylon the Great by the Self-Seekers ( Revelation 18:9-19 ). We have witnessed the fall of Babylon the Great, now we witness the ‘grief' of her ‘friends'. The kings, the merchant...

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• Revelation 18:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18

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• Revelation 18:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 miss...

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• Revelation 18:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Revelation 18:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  These features are so prominent that they are treated in another paragraph:

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• Revelation 18:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 27:30-32 ; Isaiah 23:8 ; Isaiah 23:9 ; Jeremiah 51:37 ; Revelation 13:4 ; Revelation 18:10 ; Revelation 18:9

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• Revelation 18:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Mystic and Commercial Babylon Revelation 17:1-18 and Revelation 18:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth...

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