Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 18:1-24
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18 read more
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Joseph Exell
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:1-24
Chapter 18Now 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.coming down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lit up with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful... read more
Joseph Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 18:1-24
Revelation 18:1-2 . 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 being worthy of his dignity. He cried mightily with a strong voice, Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great. Truth and grace shall henceforth reign in all the earth. Oh Judah, keep thy feasts. Revelation 18:4 . Come out of her, my people. Since the revocation of the edict of Nantz in 1685,... read more
Joseph Exell
The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 18:9-24
Revelation 18:9-24The merchants of the earth shall bewail her, and lament for her. The fall of the corrupt in human lifeWrong, including all that is morally evil ill human thought, feeling, and action is constantly falling. Though it has a very slow death, it will by the eternal law of moral disintegration be one day brought down.I. The lamentation of the bad.1. The ruling class. True kinghood is the majesty of intellect and goodness.2. The mercantile class. When the grand altruistic truth of... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 18:11
11 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 his exchequer. What huge sums of money did Tecelius and his companions rake together out of Germany. The pope had yearly out of England above nine tons of gold; Polydore Virgil was his collector of the Peter’s pence here. Otto (one of the pope’s muscipulatores , mice catchers, as the story calls... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 18:12
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, Ver. 12. The merchandise of gold ] All this is taken out of Ezekiel 27:22 . All countries have catered and purveyed for the pope, who hath had it either in money or other commodity; but money answered all things. Thyine wood ] A wild... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 18:13
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. Ver. 13. And cinnamon ] Galen writes that in his time cinnamon was very rare, and hard to be found, except in the storehouses of great princes. And Pliny reports, that a pound of cinnamon was worth 1000 denarii, that is, 150 crowns of our money. And chariots ] Or sedans, a as we call them. And slaves ] Gr.... read more
Samuel Bagster
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 18:11
the merchants: Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:15, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 18:23, Revelation 13:16, Revelation 13:17, Isaiah 23:1-Ezra :, Isaiah 47:15, Ezekiel 26:17-Ecclesiastes :, Ezekiel 27:27-Zephaniah :, Zephaniah 1:11, Zephaniah 1:18 buyeth: Proverbs 3:14, Matthew 22:5, John 2:16, 2 Peter 2:3 Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:7 - land Isaiah 2:16 - pleasant pictures Isaiah 14:11 - pomp Isaiah 23:3 - she is Isaiah 23:14 - General Isaiah 43:14 - whose cry Jeremiah 51:13 -... read more
Samuel Bagster
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 18:12
merchandise: Revelation 17:4, 1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 10:12, Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 8:11, Ezekiel 27:5-Lamentations : thyine: or, sweet, 1 Kings 10:11, 2 Chronicles 2:8 Reciprocal: Exodus 21:16 - stealeth Judges 8:26 - purple 1 Kings 10:18 - ivory Job 28:18 - pearls Ezekiel 16:10 - covered Ezekiel 27:15 - of ivory Ezekiel 27:33 - thy wares Daniel 11:38 - a god Micah 1:7 - for 1 Thessalonians 2:5 - a cloak 2 Timothy 3:2 - covetous 1 Peter 5:2 - not for read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:12-14
Here is a large enumeration of several sorts of wares, such as were most precious, gold, silver, precious stones; such as were most useful for ornament, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet; most gratifying the exterior senses, thyine wood, odours, ointments, & c.; most necessary, beasts, sheep, horses, chariots; all which, as is prophesied, shall depart from Rome: that is, whatsoever she had, which allured men into her idolatrous communion; all their idols and images, cardinals’ caps,... read more