Revelation 18:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As the merchants, Ezekiel 27:27, lamented for Tyre, that they could barter and truck no more there, because all the trade thereof was destroyed; so those ecclesiastical merchants, that were wont to trade with Rome for indulgences, and pardons, and dispensations, and faculties, for cardinals caps, and bishoprics, and prebendaries, and other church preferments, shall lament when the papacy falls, that there will be no more such merchandise to be bought or sold there.

Revelation 18:11

11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: