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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 18:18 - 18:18
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when they saw - Greek, “horontes.” But A, B, C, and Andreas read, Greek, “blepontes,” “looking at.” Greek, “blepo,” is to use the eyes, to look: the act of seeing without thought of the object seen. Greek, “horao,” refers to the thing seen or presented to the eyes [Tittmann].
smoke - so B, C. But A reads “place.”
What city is like - Compare the similar beast as to the beast, Rev 13:4 : so closely do the harlot and beast approximate one another. Contrast the attribution of this praise to God, to whom alone it is due, by His servants (Exo 15:11). Martial says of Rome, “Nothing is equal to her;” and Athenaeus, “She is the epitome of the world.”