Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
As they looked (blepontev). Present active participle of blepw. See otan blepwsin in verse Revelation 18:10.
What city is like the great city? (tiv omoia th polei th megalh). No poliv with tiv, but implied. Associative instrumental case, as usual, with omoia. "The eternal city" is eternal no longer.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 18:18:
1 Peter 4:12
Revelation 8:4
Revelation 11:8
Revelation 18:9
Revelation 19:3
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