Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Revelation 18:24

αἶμα. Tisch[684] reads αἴματα with B2 and And. comm[685]

[684] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited.

[685] comm. Andreas’ Commentary: the text of the MSS. differs.

24. καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ. As in the beginning of the Angel’s speech Babylon is spoken of in the third person, it is possible that he returns to the third person at the end: possibly also St John passes from recording the Angel’s denunciation to the impression made on his own mind by the judgement he witnessed.

πάντων … τῆς γῆς. Cf. Jeremiah 51:49, where however, if the A. V[694] be right, the sense is rather different. “The slain of all the earth” here seems to mean “the slain of (the spiritual) Israel,” or at any rate the victims of her tyranny, there, the allies of Babylon who share in her fall.

[694] Authorised Version.

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