요한계시록 17:6-8 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:1-18

"Babylon the great." Our aim in this homily will be to show to what form of evil the name "Babylon the great" specially seems to point. The complexity and difficulty which have gathered round this chapter seem to the writer to arise rather from the enormous incubus of human interpretation which has pressed it down. In this passage we are shown rather a twisted rope than a tangled web. If we untwist the threads and lay them side by side, we shall not have much difficulty, specially if we... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; of the witnesses (cf. Revelation 11:7 ). Another point of contrast between this woman and the woman of Revelation 12:1-17 .; the former persecutes, the latter is persecuted. It may be asked—How can these words be applied to professing Christians, as they must be, if such be the interpretation of the "harlot"? The answer may be found in Jeremiah. In Jeremiah 2:33 , Jeremiah 2:34 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:7

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? did thou wonder? —the same word as in Revelation 17:6 . Though the seer cannot fully comprehend the terrible significance of the sign he sees, viz. that a portion of the Church is one with the hostile world (see on Revelation 17:6 ), yet there are sufficient marks wherewith to identify it. The woman, the wilderness, the reliance upon the world power, the inscription, the similar description of Judah in Jeremiah 2:1-37 and ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:7-13

A picture of moral error. "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns," etc. Whilst to the eye of the Infinite the greatest cities of the world, the mightiest empires, the most stupendous productions of human art are as nothing, and less than nothing, "vanity," those great moral principles which are the expressions of his own nature, the laws that control... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition; and is about to come up out of the abyss (Revised Version). "And to go" ( ὑπάγειν ) is read in א , B. P, Vulgate, and almost all cursives; while ὑπάγει , "he goeth," is found in A, 12, Arethas, Irenaeus. The latter part of this passage is related again in Revelation 19:20 . The beast, as we have seen is the world power—Satan in his character of "prince of this... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints - A reeling, intoxicated harlot, for that is the image which is kept up all along. In regard to the phrase “drunken with blood,” compare Jeremiah 46:10. “The phraseology is derived from the barbarous custom (still extant among many pagan nations) of drinking the blood of the enemies slain in the way of revenge. The effect of drinking blood is said to be to exasperate, and to intoxicate with passion and a desire of revenge” (Prof. Stuart,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:7

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? - He was doubtless struck with the appearance of John as he stood fixed in astonishment. The question asked him, “why” he wondered, was designed to show him that the cause of his surprise would be removed or lessened, for that he would proceed so to explain this that he might have a correct view of its design.I will tell thee the mystery of the woman - On the word “mystery,” see the notes on Revelation 17:5. The sense is, “I will explain... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not - In the close of the verse it is added, “and yet is” - “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” There are three things affirmed here: first, that there is a sense in which it might be said of the power here referred to, that it “was,” or that, before this, it had an existence; second, that there was a sense in which it might be said that it is “not,” that is, that it had become practically extinct; and third, that there is a sense in which that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 17:6-7

Revelation 17:6-7. I saw the woman, &c. Infamous as the woman is for her idolatry, she is no less detestable for her cruelty, which are the two principal characters of the antichristian empire. She is drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs Or witnesses; of Jesus So that Rome may well be called, the slaughter-house of the martyrs. “This may indeed be applied both to pagan and to Christian Rome, for both have in their turns cruelly persecuted the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 17:8-14

Revelation 17:8-14. The beast that thou sawest, &c. The mystery of the beast is first explained, and the beast is considered first in general, (Revelation 17:8,) under a threefold state or succession, as existing, and then ceasing to be, and then reviving again, so as to become another and the same. He was, and is not Καιπερ εστιν , and yet is, or, according to other copies, και παρεσται , and shall come, shall ascend out of the bottomless pit A beast in the prophetic style,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 17:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 17:6-7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 17:8-14

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