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Rev_18:9 sq. The lament of the kings of the earth.[3955] Cf. Rev_14:11. The βασανισμός of the city, through which they are affected by the judgment, is its actual πυρῶσις .[3956] Accordingly the lamenting kings stand at a distance: they dread the conflagration in which the city perishes.[3957]
Οὐαί , οὐαί . With the διπλώσατε , Rev_18:6, the repetition of the cry of woe, which corresponds only to the extremity of the pain,[3958] has nothing to do.[3959]
ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη , κ . τ . λ . The allusion to the greatness and power of the city[3960] makes still more forcible the impression of its destruction, which is expressly designated as the reason for the lamentation ( ὅτι , κ . τ . λ .).
[3955] Cf. Rev_17:2.
[3956] Cf. Rev_1:15.
[3957] Cf. Rev_18:15.
[3958] Cf. Rev_18:16; Rev_18:19.
[3959] Against Hengstenb.
[3960] Cf. Rev_18:11 sqq., Rev_19:21 sq.