The businessmen of the earth. The businessmen cry and mourn, because their goods have suddenly become worthless! Most of the list of goods are luxuries for a pleasure-mad world! These include slaves and even men's souls. Fortunes have been made through the "seduction of the world." Notice these businessmen stand long way off because they are afraid.
Verse Revelation 18:11. _THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH_] These are represented as mourning over her, because their traffic with her was at an end. _Bishop Bale_, who applies all these things to the Chur...
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH - Who have been accustomed to traffic with her, and who have been enriched by the traffic. The image is that of a rich and splendid city. Of course, such a city depends...
CHAPTER 18 Revelation 18:1 . Babylon is now seen under another aspect. In the former chapter we have the religious center of Rome and her wicked idolatries, in the present chapter it includes also th...
REVELATION 18:1. ANOTHER ANGEL: we have no means of identifying this angel of doom. Revelation 18:2. habitation. bird: _ cf_. Isaiah 13:21 f;...
And the merchants of the earth will weep and lament over her, for no one buys their cargo any more, the cargo of gold and of silver and of precious stones and of pearls, of fine linen and of purple an...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
SHALL. Omit. OVER. App-104. NO MAN. no one. Greek. _oudeis._ BUYETH. Greek. _agorazo,_ rend, "redeemed" in Revelation 5:9; Revelation 14:3; Revelation 14:4. elsewhere alwa
_shall weep and mourn_ Read, WEEP AND MOURN (in the present tense). _for no man buyeth_&c. Their sorrow is even more purely selfish than that of the kings. _merchandise_ Strictly, CARGO....
ΚΛΑΊΟΥΣΙΝ ΚΑῚ ΠΕΝΘΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ. See crit. note. The present here between the futures in Revelation 18:9; Revelation 18:15 is more difficult than the past tenses in Revelation 18:18, which can be explained a...
THE LAMENTATION OVER HER ON EARTH...
_A GREAT LAMENTATION BY KINGS AND MERCHANTS REVELATION 18:9-16:_ The rulers and leaders of the earth that had joined Rome in her worldliness wept and lamented. They wept because they had enjoyed the s...
ΚΛΑΊΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΛΑΊΩ (G2799) плакать, ΠΕΝΘΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΝΘΈΩ (G3996) рыдать, жаловаться, ΓΌΜΟΣ (G1117) груз на судне, товар (ММ), ΆΓΟΡΆΖΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΟ...
AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, &C.— In the very solemn manner described in the verses before us, by an angel, and by a voice from heaven, is declared the fall of Rome, and her destruction by fire; and th...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVIII BABYLON IS FALLEN _Text (Revelation 18:1-24)_ 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was light...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 59 Text Revelation 18:1-20 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cr...
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: SHALL. So B; but 'Aleph (') A C read, present 'weep and mourn.' MERCHANDISE - `cargo' i...
18:11 lading (b-17) Or 'merchandise.'...
THE FALL OF BABYLON In the last c., the fall of Rome, and the manner of its fall, were prophetically announced. In this c., the greatness of the tragedy is shown by songs of thanksgiving and of lamen...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 THE FUNERAL OF BABYLON - REVELATION 18:1-24 V1 Then I saw another *angel come down from heaven. This *angel had great power. The...
(4-20) The voice out of heaven warns the faithful to leave her, and describes her fall....
(11-13) AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH... — Better, _The merchants of the earth weep and mourn_ (not “shall weep;” the vividness of the description is intensified by the use of the present tense) _ove...
CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF BABYLON. Revelation 18:1. BABYLON has fallen. We have now the Divine proclamation of her fate, and the lamentation of the world over the doom to which she has been consigne...
Revelation 18:9-20 : the wailing on earth, by kings (Revelation 18:9-10), merchants (at length, 11 16), and seafaring men (Revelation 18:17-20), imitated from the finer and more elaborate passag
“HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN” Revelation 18:1 We have seen that the scarlet woman represents the false religion of human wit and fashion. It is found in every age. There is not a city, town, or...
The vision of the destruction of Babylon as directly resulting from the government of God is now given. It is announced, "Fallen is Babylon." Her condition is described as that of a habitation of demo...
The merchants, or wholesalers, also weep over the death of the harlot for a selfish reason, there is no one left to buy. Purpole and scarlet were the colors of royalty and the wealthy. It will be reme...
(9) And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: (9) The lamentation of those that trade by land, as I distinguished before....
(9) And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, (10) Standing afar of...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
Babylon Has Fallen Psalms 13:2...How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (NKJV) Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long will You look on?... (NKJV) Psalms 74:10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Wil...
Chapter 18 announces the judgment. The one difficulty here is Verse 4 (Revelation 18:4), coming where it is; but, as every difficulty in scripture, it leads into further light. The destruction of Baby...
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL WEEP AND MOURN OVER OVER HER,.... Who these are, Revelation 18:3 and, what their lamentation, Revelation 18:16 the reason of their weeping and mourning follows: fo...
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: Ver. 11. _And the merchants of the earth_] The pope's indulgencers, and other officers of h...
_And the kings of the earth_, &c. Even the chief rulers and great powers of the world, who were formerly in league with her, and supported her in her corruptions, practised her idolatries, _and lived...
This description of the articles in which Babylon trafficked with the nations, and the lamentation of the kings and merchants of the earth over her fall, agrees in many respects with the prophecy of t...
ALAS, ALAS; showing the vast interests which multitudes of the votaries of wealth, fashion, and pleasure had in her continuance, and their disappointment, sorrow, vexation, and despair at her downfall...
The description of the desolation:...
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL WEEP AND MOURN OVER HER; FOR NO MAN BUYETH THEIR MERCHANDISE ANY MORE;...
GOD'S JUDGMENT OF GREAT BABYLON In Revelation 17:1 we have seen that the destruction of Great Babylon is by the hand of the Beast and his ten horns. Now, in Revelation 18:1, the judgment is seen to be...
_ 11 “And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:_ A. All the merchants of immorality are in mourning. The source of their income is going...
9-19 The mourners had shared Babylon's sensual pleasures, and gained by her wealth and trade. The kings of the earth, whom she flattered into idolatry, allowing them to be tyrannical over their subje...
As the merchants, EZEKIEL 27:27, lamented for Tyre, that they could barter and truck no more there, because all the trade thereof was destroyed; so those ecclesiastical merchants, that were wont to tr...
Revelation 18:11 And G2532 merchants G1713 earth G1093 weep G2799 (G5719) and G2532 mourn G3996 (G5719) ove
LAMENTATION OVER BABYLON THE GREAT BY THE SELF-SEEKERS (REVELATION 18:9). We have witnessed the fall of Babylon the Great, now we witness the ‘grief' of her ‘friends'. The kings, the merchants and the...
. ‘And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buys their merchandise any more.' They weep not for her but for themselves. Their means of profit has gone. Then are outlined in g...
THE MERCHANTS (ο εμπορο). As in Revelation 18:3; Revelation 18:15; Revelation 18:23. The dirge of the merchants follows the wail of the kings.WEEP AND MOURN (κλαιουσιν κα πενθουσιν). Presen...
CONTENTS: Last form of apostate Christendom and the warning to God's people. The human and the angelic views of Babylon. CONCLUSION: As there is to be an ecclesiastical Babylon («confusion») heading u...
Revelation 18:1. _Another angel came down from heaven and the earth was lightened with his glory._ This was an angel of the highest order, _having great power._ It may be the Lord himself, the mission...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:9 Laments come from kings, merchants, and sailors who profited from Babylon’s power and wealth. ⇐...
Another voice from heaven bids the people of God to come out of her, for her sins have reached unto heaven. God's people must ever be a separate people, not conformed to the world, but transformed. Th...
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 18:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _after _[omitting "and"]… _coming down, _etc. The usual form of introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelat...
_11 AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL WEEP AND MOURN OVER HER; FOR NO MAN BUYETH THEIR MERCHANDISE ANY MORE:_ _ 12 THE MERCHANDISE OF GOLD, AND SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES, AND OF PEARLS, AND FI...
CHAPTER 18 - BABYLON THE GREAT EXPLAINED The focus of the previous chapter was about the judgment of the harlot religious system that rode the Beast. The main focus of this chapter will be about the j...
Now after these things I saw another angel (Revelation 18:1) It may be one of the seven. It doesn't really declare or it could be outside of the seven. It is just another angel as far as we know. com...
2 Peter 2:3; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:27; Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 47
Merchandise [γ ο μ ο ν]. Only here, ver. 12, and Acts 21:3. From gemw to be full. Hence, literally, lading or cargo. So Rev., in margin. The main features of the following description are taken from t...
MYSTIC AND COMMERCIAL BABYLON Revelation 17:1 _and Revelation 18:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth presents commer...
The second sort of persons who passionately lament and bitterly bewail BABYLON'S downfall and destruction, are the merchants who traded in and with BABYLON. Here we have an allusion to the merchants a...