Revelation 18:6 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Revelation 18:6

4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ^a“Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

5 ^aFor her sins have reached to heaven, and ^bGod has remembered her iniquities.

6 ^aRender to her just as she rendered¹ to you, and repay her double according to her works; ^bin the cup which she has mixed, ^cmix double for her.

7 ^aIn the measure that she glorified herself and lived¹ luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as ^bqueen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’

8 Therefore her plagues will come ^ain one day—death and mourning and famine. And ^bshe will be utterly burned with fire, ^cfor strong is the Lord God who¹ judges her.

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9 ^a“The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her ^bwill weep and lament for her, ^cwhen they see the smoke of her burning,

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Revelation 18:6

Addressed to the executioners of God's wrath.

Reward—Greek, "repay."

she rewarded—English Version reading adds "you" with none of the oldest manuscripts. But A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic omit it. She had not rewarded or repaid the world power for some injury which the world power had inflicted on her; but she had given the world power that which was its due, namely, spiritual delusions, because it did not like to retain God in its knowledge; the unfaithful Church's principle was, "Populus vult decipi, et decipiatur." "The people like to be deceived, and let them be deceived."

double—of sorrow. Contrast with this the double of joy which Jerusalem shall receive for her past suffering (Isaiah 61:7; Zechariah 9:12); even as she has received double punishment for her sins (Isaiah 40:2).

unto her—So Syriac, Coptic, and ANDREAS. A, B, and C omit it.

in the cup— (Revelation 18:3; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 17:4).

filled—literally "mixed."

fill to her double—of the Lord's cup of wrath.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 18:6:

Isaiah 2:9
Isaiah 13:9
Jeremiah 25:15
Jeremiah 50:15
1 Timothy 5:17

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