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Revelation 18:22
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20 a“Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you1 holy apostles and prophets, for bGod has avenged you on her!”  

Finality of Babylon’s Fall

21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, a“Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and bshall not be found anymore.  
22 aThe sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore.  
23 aThe light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, band the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For cyour merchants were the great men of the earth, dfor by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.  
24 And ain her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who bwere slain on the earth.” 
Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Revelation 18:22

The voice (fwnh). Cf. Ezekiel 26:13. Or "sound" as in I Corinthians 14:8 with salpigc (trumpet). For this song of judgment see Jeremiah 25:10.

Of harpers (kiqarwdwn). Old word (from kiqara, harp, and wdov, singer) as in Revelation 14:2.

Of minstrels (mousikwn). Old word (from mousa, music), here only in N.T., one playing on musical instruments.

Of flute-players (aulhtwn). Old word (from aulew, to play on a flute, Matthew 11:17, aulov, flute, I Corinthians 14:7), in N.T. only here and Matthew 9:23.

Of trumpeters (salpistwn). Late form for the earlier salpigkthv (from salpizw), here only in N.T.

Shall be heard no more at all (ou mh akousqh). First aorist passive subjunctive of akouw with the double negative as below, with fwnh mulou (sound of the millstone), and as in verse Revelation 18:21 with ou me eureqh and again with pav texnithv (craftsman). This old word is from texnh, art, as here in some MSS. ("of whatsoever craft," pashv texnhv). Texnithv occurs also in this sense in Acts 19:24, Acts 19:38; and in Hebrews 11:10 of God as the Architect. There is power in this four-fold sonorous repetition of ou mh and the subjunctive with two more examples in verse Revelation 18:23.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 18:22:

Revelation 14:2
Revelation 18:21
Revelation 18:23
Revelation 18:23

 

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