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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Revelation 18:2

mightily with a strong voice We should read, with a mighty voice.

Babylon … is fallen Revelation 14:8; Isaiah 21:9.

the habitation of devils Better, an habitation. Similar vengeance is denounced on the literal Babylon, Isaiah 13:21-22, and on Edom, id. Isaiah 34:13-15. It is not quite certain which of the words used in those passages are names of demons or goblins, and which of terrestrial birds and beasts: but there is little doubt that Isaiah, like St John, means to describe bothas occupying the desolated city.

the hold Probably a prison, not a fortress. It is the same word that is translated "cage" in the next clause, and "prison" in 1 St Peter Ephesians 3:19.

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