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Selected Verse: Revelation 18:5 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Re 18:5 |
King James |
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
her sins--as a great heap.
reached--Greek, "reached so far as to come into close contact with, and to cleave unto." |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For her sins have reached unto heaven - So in Jer 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, "For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies." The meaning is not that the sins of this mystical Babylon were like a mass or pile so high as to reach to heaven, but that it had become so prominent as to attract the attention of God. Compare Gen 4:10, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." See also Gen 18:20.
And God hath remembered her iniquities - He had seemed to forget them, or not to notice them, but now he acted as if they had come to his recollection. See the notes on Rev 16:19. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
sins
Sin
(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23). |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Have reached (ἠκολούθησαν)
Lit., followed. But the best texts read ἐκολλήθησαν clave. Compare Jer 51:9. For different applications of the verb see on Mat 19:5; see on Luk 15:15; see on Act 5:13. Compare the classical phrase for following up closely a fleeing foe, hoerere in terga hostium, to cleave to the backs of the enemy. See also Zac 14:5 (Sept.), "The valley of the mountains shall reach (ἐγκολληθήσεται) unto Azal." The radical idea of the metaphor is that of following or reaching after so as to be joined to. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Even to heaven - An expression which implies the highest guilt. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Her sins have reached unto heaven - They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice. |
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.