Pahayag 18:7

Filipino Cebuano Bible

7 Sumala sa iyang pagpagarbo sa iyang kaugalingon ug sa iyang pagkamapatuyangon, hatagi siyag samang takus sa kasakit ug kasubo. Sanglit sa iyang kasingkasing nagaingon man siya, Nagalingkod ako nga rayna, dili ako balo, ug sa kasubo dili gayud ako makatilaw,

Bible Verse Review
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much she: Isaiah 22:12-14, Isaiah 47:1, Isaiah 47:2, Isaiah 47:7-9, Ezekiel 28:2-10, Zephaniah 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4-8

I sit: Psalms 45:9, Jeremiah 13:18

no widow: Isaiah 47:7, Isaiah 47:8, Lamentations 1:1

Reciprocal: Judges 18:7 - how they 1 Samuel 15:32 - Agag said Esther 6:10 - Make haste Job 20:22 - the fulness Job 36:11 - spend Proverbs 14:13 - General Ecclesiastes 2:1 - I will Isaiah 14:13 - thou Isaiah 32:13 - General Isaiah 47:5 - for Jeremiah 48:7 - because Jeremiah 49:4 - gloriest Jeremiah 50:24 - and thou wast Jeremiah 51:57 - I will Lamentations 4:5 - that did Ezekiel 23:34 - and pluck Obadiah 1:3 - saith Zechariah 1:15 - General Mark 8:36 - what Luke 6:25 - mourn Luke 9:25 - what Luke 12:19 - take Luke 12:45 - to eat Luke 16:19 - clothed John 16:20 - but the Romans 11:20 - Be 1 Corinthians 7:30 - that weep Philippians 3:19 - whose glory 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - then 1 Timothy 5:6 - she 1 Timothy 6:17 - that they Hebrews 11:25 - the pleasures James 4:9 - let James 4:16 - General James 5:5 - have lived Revelation 17:4 - arrayed Revelation 18:9 - the kings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How much she hath glorified herself,.... And acted the proud and haughty part in exalting herself above all emperors, kings, and princes, above all kingdoms and states, and also above all churches, assuming arrogant titles, and even blasphemous names; see Revelation 13:1

and lived deliciously: in a very luxuriant manner, as the popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, monks, and friars have done; some being clothed in purple and scarlet, and in gold and silver, and all living upon the fat of the land, and in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness:

so much torment and sorrow give her: by pulling down her pride, which goes before a fall, than which nothing could more torment and afflict her; by stripping her of her fine clothes and rich apparel; and by taking away her fat benefices from her, which will cut her to the heart; and by burning her with fire, which will be very excruciating:

for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen; a lady of kingdoms, as in

Isaiah 47:5 to which the reference is; having a temporal power and authority over the kings of the earth, and a spiritual jurisdiction over all churches, apostate ones, being the mother of harlots; and her "sitting" as such, as it well agrees with the whore on many waters, and the woman on the scarlet coloured beast and seven mountains, who are all the same, and is very suitable to antichrist, who pretends to sit in Peter's chair, and does sit in the temple of God, as if he was God; so it is expressive of her empire and government over nations and churches, and of the continuance of it, as she imagines, see Isaiah 46:7 and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "I shall reign always": to which she adds,

and am no widow; nor never shall be, as she flatters herself, see

Isaiah 47:8. Were she the true spouse of Christ, as she boasts herself, she indeed would be no widow, for Christ is an everlasting and never dying husband; but she is the whore of the kings of the earth, and though she fancies she shall be no widow, that is, bereft of people and power, see Lamentations 1:1 because she now sits on many waters, people, multitudes, and nations and tongues; yet ere long, like old Babylon, she will have no men in her, but will be inhabited by devils, foul spirits, and hateful birds:

and shall see no sorrow; through loss of children, power, and authority; see Isaiah 47:8 but in this also she will be mistaken; her children will be killed with death, as is threatened to Jezebel, Revelation 2:23 and her plagues shall come upon her at once: now these words may be considered either as spoken by her when in the height of her power and glory, as she was about three or four hundred years ago; or just before her destruction, which seems to be the case, and looks as if she would regain her power, and be in her former state before her utter ruin; Revelation 2:23- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How much she hath glorified herself - Been proud, boastful, arrogant. This was true of ancient Babylon, that she was proud and haughty; and it has been no less true of mystical Babylon - papal Rome.

And lived deliciously - By as much as she has lived in luxury and dissoluteness, so let her suffer now. The word used here and rendered “lived deliciously” - ἐστρηνίασεν estrēniasen - is derived from the noun - στρῆνος strēnos - which is used in Revelation 18:3, and rendered “delicacies.” See the notes on that verse. It means properly, “to live strenuously, rudely,” as in English, “to live hard”; and then to revel, to live in luxury, riot, dissoluteness. No one can doubt the propriety of this as descriptive of ancient Babylon, and as little can its propriety be doubted as applied to papal Rome.

So much torment and sorrow give her - Let her punishment correspond with her sins. This is expressing substantially the same idea which occurs in the previous verse.

For she saith in her heart - This is the estimate which she forms of herself.

I sit a queen - Indicative of pride, and of an asserted claim to rule.

And am no widow - Am not in the condition of a widow - a state of depression, sorrow, and mourning. All this indicates security and self-confidence, a description in every way applicable to papal Rome.

And shall see no sorrow - This is indicative of a state where there was nothing feared, notwithstanding all the indications which existed of approaching calamity. In this state we may expect to find papal Rome, even when its last judgments are about to come upon it; in this state it has usually been; in this state it is now, notwithstanding all the indications that are abroad in the world that its power is waning, and that the period of its fall approaches.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 18:7. How much she hath glorified herself — By every act of transgression and sinful pampering of the body she has been preparing for herself a suitable and proportionate punishment.