Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 17:7-14
Further revelation about the beast 17:7-14 read more
启示录 17:9-10 Rcuvss
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 17:9
The angel prefaced his identification of the beast’s seven heads with a statement that understanding this part of the revelation requires wisdom (cf. Revelation 13:18). Evidently many would incorrectly identify these seven heads. Indeed various writers have suggested a multitude of different interpretations. The most popular of these include seven Roman emperors, [Note: Beckwith, pp. 699, 704-11; Swete, pp. 220-21. For refutation of this view, see Ladd, pp. 228-29.] the seven hills of Rome,... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 17:10
The seven kings are rulers over seven kingdoms. The prominent kingdom in John’s day that "is" was certainly the Roman Empire. The five most prominent world powers preceding Rome that had fallen are probably Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece. [Note: Seiss, p. 393; cf. Ladd, p. 229; Walvoord, The Revelation . . ., p. 251; Alford, 4:710-11.] The Old Babylonian Empire may have been the first (Genesis 10:8-10). The seventh kingdom that was yet to come and would remain a little while is the... read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Revelation 17:9
17:9 mind (b-4) Nous , ver. 9 and ch. 13.18, [understanding]. see Note 1 Corinthians 1:5 . Gnome in vers. 13,17 only; the mind expressed; as 'opinion,' 1 Corinthians 1:10 ; 1 Corinthians 7:25 . read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Revelation 17:10
17:10 kings. (c-5) Or '... sits, and are seven kings.' read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 17:1-18
Babylon the great HarlotThe judgment on Rome, which had been announced before, is now shown in detail. The identification of ’Babylon’ with Rome, here and elsewhere in Rev., is supported (HDB.) by the following considerations:—The name Babylon in Revelation 17:5; ’is described as mystery, i.e. a name to be allegorically interpreted... B. is described (1) as “the harlot” the supreme antithesis of “the bride,” “the holy city,” “the new Jerus.” (2) as the centre and ruler of the nations,... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 17:9
(9) And here is the mind . . .—Better, Here (omit “and”) is the mind, &c. Attention is asked to the fuller explanation which follows. It needs true wisdom to behold many incidents of the world’s history and not find stumbling-blocks in them (Psalms 73:2-3; Psalms 119:165). The seven heads are seven mountains where the woman sitteth upon them. The description seems to be drawn from Rome, the seven-hilled city. This keeps the reference to Rome before us, but at the same time the further... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 17:10
(10) And there are seven kings. . . .—Better. They are seven kings: five (not “are fallen,” but fell, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he shall come, he must continue a short time. It has been debated whether these kings are individual sovereigns, or forms of government, or kingdoms The last view is the one adopted in this Commentary. The wild beast belongs to no one age, but is a power which has risen in every age; the seven heads represent the successive culminations of the... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 17:1-18
Revelation 17:6 Mercy and love are sins in Rome and hell. Beaumont and Fletcher, 'Bonduca,' Act iv. Scene 4. The Lamb's War with the Beast Revelation 17:14 It is strange that the most mysterious book of the Bible should be especially singled out as the Revelation. Yet though no book is less patient of a detailed and pedantic exposition, none is more full of the triumph and the tears of God's Word, none is richer in lessons to guide us in the stern and fluctuating conflict of our Lord with... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 17:10
10. there are—Translate, "they (the seven heads) are seven kings." five . . . one—Greek, "the five . . . the one"; the first five of the seven are fallen (a word applicable not to forms of government passing away, but to the fall of once powerful empires: Egypt, Ezekiel 29:1-30; Assyria and Nineveh, :-; Babylon, Revelation 18:2; Jeremiah 50:1-51; Medo-Persia, Daniel 8:3-7; Daniel 8:20-22; Daniel 10:13; Daniel 11:2; Greece, Daniel 11:4). Rome was "the one" existing in John's days. "Kings" is... read more