Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 18:1-24
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18 read more
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18 read more
Chapter 18Now after these things I saw another angel ( Revelation 18:1 )It may be one of the seven. It doesn't really declare or it could be outside of the seven. It is just another angel as far as we know.coming down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lit up with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful... read more
Revelation 18:1-2 . Another angel came down from heaven and the earth was lightened with his glory. This was an angel of the highest order, having great power. It may be the Lord himself, the mission being worthy of his dignity. He cried mightily with a strong voice, Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great. Truth and grace shall henceforth reign in all the earth. Oh Judah, keep thy feasts. Revelation 18:4 . Come out of her, my people. Since the revocation of the edict of Nantz in 1685,... read more
Revelation 18:9-24The merchants of the earth shall bewail her, and lament for her. The fall of the corrupt in human lifeWrong, including all that is morally evil ill human thought, feeling, and action is constantly falling. Though it has a very slow death, it will by the eternal law of moral disintegration be one day brought down.I. The lamentation of the bad.1. The ruling class. True kinghood is the majesty of intellect and goodness.2. The mercantile class. When the grand altruistic truth of... read more
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: Ver. 11. And the merchants of the earth ] The pope’s indulgencers, and other officers of his exchequer. What huge sums of money did Tecelius and his companions rake together out of Germany. The pope had yearly out of England above nine tons of gold; Polydore Virgil was his collector of the Peter’s pence here. Otto (one of the pope’s muscipulatores , mice catchers, as the story calls... read more
the merchants: Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:15, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 18:23, Revelation 13:16, Revelation 13:17, Isaiah 23:1-Ezra :, Isaiah 47:15, Ezekiel 26:17-Ecclesiastes :, Ezekiel 27:27-Zephaniah :, Zephaniah 1:11, Zephaniah 1:18 buyeth: Proverbs 3:14, Matthew 22:5, John 2:16, 2 Peter 2:3 Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:7 - land Isaiah 2:16 - pleasant pictures Isaiah 14:11 - pomp Isaiah 23:3 - she is Isaiah 23:14 - General Isaiah 43:14 - whose cry Jeremiah 51:13 -... read more
IV. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, Revelation 7:1 to Revelation 20:10. Of the trumpets, the first four are mundane, or earthly; each of the four blasts draws down a judgment upon some creational point, as earth, sea, fountains and rivers; firmamental luminaries. It is the sins of men that draw down these bolts of wrath, rendering every point of creation hostile to our peace. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake,” (Genesis 3:17,) is the key-note. This sad status of humanity has existed through all past... read more
11. Shall The speaker here adopts the present tense, buyeth, as if detailing what is truly now occurring over the late ruin. At Revelation 18:15 the future is resumed; at Revelation 18:17 the preterite. read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:11
As the merchants, Ezekiel 27:27, lamented for Tyre, that they could barter and truck no more there, because all the trade thereof was destroyed; so those ecclesiastical merchants, that were wont to trade with Rome for indulgences, and pardons, and dispensations, and faculties, for cardinals’ caps, and bishoprics, and prebendaries, and other church preferments, shall lament when the papacy falls, that there will be no more such merchandise to be bought or sold there. read more