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 (G991), 'looking at;' blepoo (G991) is to use the eyes, to look: the act of seeing, without thought of the object seen: horaoo (G3708) refers to the thing seen or presented to the eye (Tittmann)].
Smoke. So B C; but A, Vulgate, 'place.'
What city is like? Compare the similar boast as to the beast, Revelation 13:4: so closely do the harlot and beast approximate. Contrast its attribution to God, to whom alone it is due, by His servants (Exodus 15:11). Martial says of Rome, 'Nothing is equal to her;' Athenaeus, 'She is the world's epitome.'