Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon Add "and amomum," a precious oriental ointment. The word was accidentally omitted by copyists, from its likeness to the latter part of the preceding one.

and horses Lit., of horses, the genitive dependent on "merchandise" is resumed.

chariots Not war-chariots like those mentioned in the O. T., but luxurious carriages.

slaves Comparing Ezekiel 27:14, perhaps we are to understand grooms or coachmen, attached to the horses and chariots. The word means literally bodies, but the sense "slaves" was recognised in Greek, though not strictly classical.

souls of men Ezekiel 27:13. As "horses and chariots and bodies" are genitives, and "souls" accusative, we can hardly connect the last two words, "bodies and souls of men." But while we never find in the Bible an Englishman's horror of slavery as an institution, we are no doubt to understand that St John perhaps even that Ezekiel felt it to be cruel and unnatural to regard human beings as mere merchandise.