Pahayag 18:4

Filipino Cebuano Bible

4 Unya nadungog ko gikan sa langit ang laing tingog nga nag-ingon, Gomowa kamo kaniya, mga tawo ko, aron dili kamo makaapil sa uyang kasal-anan, aron dili kamo makaambit sa iyang mga hampak;

Bible Verse Review
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Come: Genesis 19:12, Genesis 19:13, Numbers 16:26, Numbers 16:27, Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 52:11, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:45, Jeremiah 51:50, Matthew 24:15, Matthew 24:16, 2 Corinthians 6:17

partakers: Psalms 50:18, Matthew 23:30, 1 Timothy 5:22, 2 John 1:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:1 - Get Genesis 14:12 - who Genesis 19:14 - Up Genesis 19:15 - hastened Leviticus 14:36 - be not made Numbers 16:21 - Separate Judges 20:13 - would not 1 Kings 13:9 - Eat no bread Job 36:17 - fulfilled Psalms 16:4 - Their Psalms 64:8 - all that Psalms 141:4 - to practice Proverbs 9:6 - Forsake Proverbs 13:20 - but Proverbs 24:19 - Fret Isaiah 13:3 - them that Isaiah 52:2 - Shake Zechariah 2:6 - and flee Zechariah 2:7 - Deliver Luke 21:21 - and let them Acts 2:40 - Save Ephesians 5:7 - General Ephesians 5:11 - no

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I heard another voice from heaven,.... Either of another, or of the same angel, or rather of God, or Christ himself, since the persons addressed are called his people:

saying, come out of her, my people; meaning either his elect ones, till now uncalled, being such whom God had chosen for his people, and were so by virtue of the covenant of grace, were given to Christ as his people, and were redeemed by him, though, till this call, in an unconverted state; or else such who had been secretly called by the grace of God, but had not made a public profession of the Gospel, nor bore an open testimony against the Romish idolatry; for as the Lord had a righteous Lot in Sodom, and saints where Satan's seat was, Rome Pagan, so he will have a people in Rome Papal, at the time when its destruction draws near; and these wilt be called out, not only in a spiritual sense, to quit the communion of the church, to forsake its idolatries, and not touch the unclean thing, separate themselves from her, and bear a testimony against her doctrines and worship, but in a literal sense, locally; they shall be bid to come out of her, as Lot was ordered to go out of Sodom before its burning, and the people of the Jews out of Babylon before the taking of it, Jeremiah 50:8 to which reference is here had: and as the Christians were called out of Jerusalem before the destruction of it: this shows the particular knowledge the Lord has of his people, be they where they will, and the gracious care he takes of them, that they perish not with others; and that it is his will they should be a separate people from the rest of the world; and this call of his sufficiently justifies the Protestants in their separation from the church of Rome, and every separation from any apostate church;

that ye be not partakers of her sins: by conniving at them, or committing the same; and all such are partakers of them, and have fellowship with these unfruitful works of darkness, that are in the communion of that church; and those that dwell at Rome are in great danger of being so, and cannot well avoid it: yea, even those that only go to see it, and stay but for a time in it, and that not only through the strength and influence of example, but through the force of power and authority:

and that ye receive not of her plagues; or punishments; the seven last plagues, which belong to her, the vials of which will be poured out upon one or other of the antichristian states, and the fifth particularly will fall upon Rome, the seat of the beast, and is what is here referred to.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I heard another voice from heaven - He does not say whether this was the voice of an angel, but the idea seems rather to be that it is the voice of God.

Come out of her, my people - The reasons for this, as immediately stated, are two:

(a)That they might not participate in her sins; and,

(b)That they might not be involved in the ruin that would come upon her.

The language seems to be derived from such passages in the Old Testament as the following: “Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing,” Isaiah 48:20. “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in her iniquity,” Jeremiah 51:6. “My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord,” Jeremiah 51:45. Compare Jeremiah 50:8.

That ye be not partakers of her sins - For the meaning of this expression, see the notes on 1 Timothy 5:22. It is implied here that by remaining in Babylon they would lend their sanction to its sins by their presence, and would, in all probability, become contaminated by the influence around them. This is an universal truth in regard to iniquity, and hence it is the duty of those who would be pure to come out from the world, and to separate themselves from all the associations of evil.

And that ye receive not of her plagues - Of the punishment that was to come upon her - as they must certainly do if they remained in her. The judgment of God that was to come upon the guilty city would make no discrimination among those who were found there; and if they would escape these woes they must make their escape from her. As applicable to papal Rome, in view of her impending ruin, this means:

(a)That there might be found in her some who were the true people of God;

(b)That it was their duty to separate wholly from her - a command that will not only justify the Reformation, but which would have made a longer continuance in communion with the papacy, when her wickedness was fully seen, an act of guilt before God;

(c)That they who remain in such a communion cannot but be regarded as partaking of her sin; and,

(d)That if they remain, they must expect to be involved in the calamities that will come upon her. There never was any duty plainer than that of withdrawing from papal Rome; there never has been any act attended with more happy consequences than that by which the Protestant world separated itself forever from the sins and the plagues of the papacy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 18:4. Come out of her, my people — These words appear to be taken from Isaiah 48:20; Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 51:6; Jeremiah 51:45. The poet Mantuanus expresses this thought well:-

Vivere qui sancte cupitis, discelite; Romae

Omnia quum liceant, non licet esse bonum.

"Ye who desire to live a godly life, depart; for, although all things are lawful at Rome, yet to be godly is unlawful.