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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 18:6 - 18:6
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Addressed to the executioners of God’s wrath.
Reward - Greek, “repay.”
she rewarded - English Version reading adds “you” with none of the oldest manuscripts. But A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic omit it. She had not rewarded or repaid the world power for some injury which the world power had inflicted on her; but she had given the world power that which was its due, namely, spiritual delusions, because it did not like to retain God in its knowledge; the unfaithful Church’s principle was, “Populus vult decipi, et decipiatur.” “The people like to be deceived, and let them be deceived.”
double - of sorrow. Contrast with this the double of joy which Jerusalem shall receive for her past suffering (Isa 61:7; Zec 9:12); even as she has received double punishment for her sins (Isa 40:2).
unto her - So Syriac, Coptic, and Andreas. A, B, and C omit it.
in the cup - (Rev 18:3; Rev 14:8; Rev 17:4).
filled - literally “mixed.”
fill to her double - of the Lord’s cup of wrath.