Revelation 18:13-19

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 vanished like a dream (Swete).

Revelation 18:17. The dirge of the shipmasters and mariners follows that of the merchants.

Revelation 18:17. There are many reminiscences in this passage of the lament over the fall of Tyre in Ezekiel 27.