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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 18:12 - 18:12
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(See on Rev 17:4).
stones ... pearls - Greek, “stone ... pearl.”
fine linen - A, B, and C read Greek, “bussinou” for “bussou,” that is, “fine linen manufacture” [Alford]. The manufacture for which Egypt (the type of the apostate Church, Rev 11:8) was famed. Contrast “the fine linen” (Eze 16:10) put on Israel, and on the New Testament Church (Rev 19:8), the Bride, by God (Psa 132:9).
thyine wood - the citrus of the Romans: probably the cypressus thyoyides, or the thuia articulata. “Citron wood” [Alford]. A sweet-smelling tree of Cyrene in Lybia, used for incense.
all manner vessels - Greek, “every vessel,” or “furniture.”