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Selected Verse: Revelation 18:11 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Re 18:11 |
Strong Concordance |
And [2532] the merchants [1713] of the earth [1093] shall weep [2799] and [2532] mourn [3996] over [1909] her [846]; for [3754] no man [3762] buyeth [59] their [846] merchandise [1117] any more [3765]: |
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King James |
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: |
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] |
shall--So. B. But A and C read the present, "weep and mourn."
merchandise--Greek, "cargo": wares carried in ships: ship-lading (compare Rev 18:17). Rome was not a commercial city, and is not likely from her position to be so. The merchandise must therefore be spiritual, even as the harlot is not literal, but spiritual. She did not witness against carnal luxury and pleasure-seeking, the source of the merchants' gains, but conformed to them (Rev 18:7). She cared not for the sheep, but for the wool. Professing Christian merchants in her lived as if this world not heaven, were the reality, and were unscrupulous as to the means of getting gain. Compare Notes, see on Zac 5:4-11, on the same subject, the judgment on mystical Babylon's merchants for unjust gain. All the merchandise here mentioned occurs repeatedly in the Roman Ceremonial. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And the merchants of the earth - Who have been accustomed to traffic with her, and who have been enriched by the traffic. The image is that of a rich and splendid city. Of course, such a city depends much on its merchandise; and when it declines and falls, many who had been accustomed to deal with it, as merchants or traffickers, are affected by it, and have occasion to lament its fall.
Shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore - The merchandise which they were accustomed to take to the city, and by the sale of which they lived. The enumeration of the articles of merchandise which follows, seems to have been inserted for the purpose of filling out the representation of what is usually found in such a city, and to show the desolation which would occur when this traffic was suspended. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Merchandise (γόμον)
Only here, Rev 18:12, and Act 21:3. From γέμω to be full. Hence, literally, lading or cargo. So Rev., in margin.
The main features of the following description are taken from that of the destruction of Tyre, Ezekiel 26, 27. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The merchants of the earth - These are represented as mourning over her, because their traffic with her was at an end.
Bishop Bale, who applies all these things to the Church of Rome, thus paraphrases the principal passages: -
The mighty kinges and potentates of the earth, not havinge afore their eyes the love and feare of God, have committed with this whore moste vile filthynesse; abusinge themselves by many straunge or uncommaunded worshippings, and bynding themselves by othe to observe hyr lawes and customs. At the examples, doctrines, counsels, and perswasions of hyr holy whoremongers, have they broken the covenaunts of peace; battailed, oppressed, spoyled, ravished, tyrannously murthered innocents; yea, for vain foolish causes, and more vaine titles, as though there were neither heaven nor hel, God nor accounts to be made.
"And her mitred marchantes, hyr shorne souldiers, hir massemongers, hyr soulesellers, and hir martbrokers, waxed very riche, through the sale of hir oyles, creme, salt, water, bread, orders, hallowings, houselinges, ashes, palme, waxe, frankensence, beades, crosses, candlesticks, copes, belles, organes, images, reliques, and other pedlary wares.
"They have gotten in unto them pallaces and princely houses, fat pastors and parkes, meadowes and warrens, rivers and pondes, villages and towns, cities and whole provinces, with the divill and all els; besides other men's wives, daughters, mayde servantes, and children, whom they have abhominably corrupted. What profites they have drawen unto them also by the sale of great bishopricks, prelacies, promocions, benefices, tot quoties, pardons, pilgrymages, confessions, and purgatory; besides the yearely rents of cathedrall churches, abbayes, colleges, covents, for sutes and suche other. - Specially shal they be sore discontented with the matter, which have with hir committed the whordom of the spyrite, by many externe worshipings of drye waffer cakes, oyles, roods, relyques, ladyes, images, sculles, bones, chippes, olde ragges, showes, (shoes), bootes, spurres, hattes, breches, whodes, night capes, and such like.
"And they that have lived wantonly with hir, (Rev 18:9), in following hir idle observacions, in mattenses, houres, and masses; in sensinges, halowings, and font halowing; in going processions with canapye, crosse, and pyx; with banneres, stremers, and torche light; with such other gaudes to folish for children.
"Alas, alas, that great cyty (Rev 18:10) that beautiful Babilon, that blessed holy mother the Church, which somtime had so many popes pardons, so many bishoppes blessinges, so many holye stations, so many cleane remissions a pena et culpa, so many good ghostly fathers, so many religious orders, so much holy water for spirites, and Saint John's gospel, with the five woundes and the length of our Lord for drowning, is nowe decayed for ever!
'Alas, alas, who shall pray for us now? Who shall singe dirges and trentoles? Who shal spoile us of our sinnes? Who shal give us ashes and palmes? Who shal blesse us with a spade, and singe us out of purgatory when we are deade? If we lacke these things we are like to want heaven. These are the desperate complaints of the wicked." |
4 I will bring it forth [03318], saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], and it shall enter [0935] into the house [01004] of the thief [01590], and into the house [01004] of him that sweareth [07650] falsely [08267] by my name [08034]: and it shall remain [03885] in the midst [08432] of his house [01004], and shall consume [03615] it with the timber [06086] thereof and the stones [068] thereof.
5 Then the angel [04397] that talked [01696] with me went forth [03318], and said [0559] unto me, Lift up [05375] now thine eyes [05869], and see [07200] what is this that goeth forth [03318].
6 And I said [0559], What is it? And he said [0559], This is an ephah [0374] that goeth forth [03318]. He said [0559] moreover, This is their resemblance [05869] through all the earth [0776].
7 And, behold, there was lifted up [05375] a talent [03603] of lead [05777]: and this is a [0259] woman [0802] that sitteth [03427] in the midst [08432] of the ephah [0374].
8 And he said [0559], This is wickedness [07564]. And he cast [07993] it into the midst [08432] of the ephah [0374]; and he cast [07993] the weight [068] of lead [05777] upon the mouth [06310] thereof.
9 Then lifted I up [05375] mine eyes [05869], and looked [07200], and, behold, there came out [03318] two [08147] women [0802], and the wind [07307] was in their wings [03671]; for they had [02007] wings [03671] like the wings [03671] of a stork [02624]: and they lifted up [05375] the ephah [0374] between the earth [0776] and the heaven [08064].
10 Then said [0559] I to the angel [04397] that talked [01696] with me, Whither do these bear [03212] the ephah [0374]?
11 And he said [0559] unto me, To build [01129] it an house [01004] in the land [0776] of Shinar [08152]: and it shall be established [03559], and set [03240] there upon her own base [04369].
7 How much [3745] she hath glorified [1392] herself [1438], and [2532] lived deliciously [4763], so much [5118] torment [929] and [2532] sorrow [3997] give [1325] her [846]: for [3754] she saith [3004] in [1722] her [846] heart [2588], I sit [2521] a queen [938], and [2532] am [1510] no [3756] widow [5503], and [2532] shall see [1492] no [3364] sorrow [3997].
17 For [3754] in one [3391] hour [5610] so great [5118] riches [4149] is come to nought [2049]. And [2532] every [3956] shipmaster [2942], and [2532] all [3956] the company [3658] in [1909] ships [4143], and [2532] sailors [3492], and [2532] as many as [3745] trade [2038] by sea [2281], stood [2476] afar [3113] off [575],
3 Now [1161] when we had discovered [398] Cyprus [2954], [2532] we left [2641] it [846] on the left hand [2176], and sailed [4126] into [1519] Syria [4947], and [2532] landed [2609] at [1519] Tyre [5184]: for [1063] there [1566] the ship [4143] was [2258] to unlade [670] her burden [1117].
12 The merchandise [1117] of gold [5557], and [2532] silver [696], and [2532] precious [5093] stones [3037], and [2532] of pearls [3135], and [2532] fine linen [1040], and [2532] purple [4209], and [2532] silk [4596], and [2532] scarlet [2847], and [2532] all [3956] thyine [2367] wood [3586], and [2532] all manner [3956] vessels [4632] of ivory [1661], and [2532] all manner [3956] vessels [4632] of [1537] most precious [5093] wood [3586], and [2532] of brass [5475], and [2532] iron [4604], and [2532] marble [3139],
10 Standing [2476] afar [3113] off [575] for [1223] the fear [5401] of her [846] torment [929], saying [3004], Alas [3759], alas [3759], that great [3173] city [4172] Babylon [897], that mighty [2478] city [4172]! for [3754] in [1722] one [3391] hour [5610] is [2064] thy [4675] judgment [2920] come [2064].
9 And [2532] the kings [935] of the earth [1093], who [3588] have committed fornication [4203] and [2532] lived deliciously [4763] with [3326] her [846], shall bewail [2799] her [846], and [2532] lament [2875] for [1909] her [846], when [3752] they shall see [991] the smoke [2586] of her [846] burning [4451],