Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Where the harlot sitteth (ou h pornov kaqhtai). Relative adverb ou (where) referring to the waters (udata) of verse Revelation 17:1 on which the harlot sits. Present middle indicative of kaqhmai.
Are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues (laoi kai oxloi eisin kai eqnh kai glwssai). The O.T. uses "waters" as symbol for "peoples" (Isaiah 8:7; Jeremiah 47:2; Psalms 29:10, etc.). "Rome's greatest danger lay in the multitudes which were under her sway" (Swete).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 17:15:
Revelation 7:9
Revelation 17:1
Revelation 17:7
Revelation 18:1
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