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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 18:1-8

The downfall and destruction of Babylon form an event so fully determined in the counsels of God, and of such consequence to his interests and glory, that the visions and predictions concerning it are repeated. 1. Here is another angel sent from heaven, attended with great power and lustre, Rev. 18:1. He had not only light in himself, to discern the truth of his own prediction, but to inform and enlighten the world about that great event; and not only light to discern it, but power to... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 18:1-3

18:1-3 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority and the earth was lit up by his glory. He cried with a loud voice saying: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a dwelling-place of demons, and a stronghold of every unclean spirit, and a stronghold of every unclean and hated bird, because the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 18:4-5

18:4-5 I heard another voice from heaven saying: "Come out, my people, from her, lest you become partners in her sins, and lest you share in her plagues, because her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteous deeds." The Christians are bidden come out of Rome before the day of destruction comes, lest, sharing in her sins, they also share in her doom. H. B. Swete says that this call to come out rings through Hebrew history. God is always calling upon his people... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 18:6-8

18:6-8 Repay her in the coin with which she paid others; and repay her double for her deeds. Mix her a double draught in the cup in which she mixed her draughts. In proportion to her boasting and her wantonness give her torture and grief, for she says in her heart: "I sit a queen: I am not a widow; grief is something that I will never see." Because of this her plagues will come upon her in one day--pestilence and grief and famine and she will be burned with fire, because the Lord God who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:3

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication ,.... That is, all the nations of the Roman empire, the European nations, otherwise the Pagan and Mahometan nations have not; but these have, being made to drink by her, and made drunk therewith, that is, with her idolatries; See Gill on Revelation 14:8 . And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her ; joined with her in her idolatrous worship and practices, and encouraged the same, and obliged... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven ,.... Either of another, or of the same angel, or rather of God, or Christ himself, since the persons addressed are called his people: saying, come out of her, my people ; meaning either his elect ones, till now uncalled, being such whom God had chosen for his people, and were so by virtue of the covenant of grace, were given to Christ as his people, and were redeemed by him, though, till this call, in an unconverted state; or else such who had been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:5

For her sins have reached unto heaven ,.... Or "have followed unto heaven"; one after another, in one age after another, until they have been as it were heaped up together, and have reached the heavens; the phrase denotes the multitude of them, God's knowledge and notice of them, and the cry of them to him; see Genesis 18:20 the Alexandrian copy and Complutensian edition read, "have cleaved", or "glued", and so the Syriac and Arabic versions seem to have read; her sins were as it were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:6

Reward her even as she rewarded you ,.... This is spoken to the people of God, who are before called out of Babylon; and the chief of them are the seven angels with the seven last plagues of the wrath of God, and the same with the ten kings that will burn the whore with fire; these are called upon to take vengeance, by way of retaliation, for what she had done to them, in allusion to what is said of old Babylon, Jeremiah 1:15 and must be understood not of what she will have done to them... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:3

The wine of the wrath - The punishment due to her transgressions, because they have partaken with her in her sins. See the note on Revelation 14:8 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:4

Come out of her, my people - These words appear to be taken from Isaiah 48:20 ; Jeremiah 1:8 ; Jeremiah 51:6 , Jeremiah 51:45 . The poet Mantuanus expresses this thought well: - Vivere qui sancte cupitis, discelite; Romae Omnia quum liceant, non licet esse bonum read more

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