SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:23
y luz de lmpara no alumbrar ms en ti; y voz de esposo y de esposa no ser ms oída en ti: cuyos mercaderes eran príncipes de la tierra: en cuyas hechicerías todos los gentiles han errado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:23
Verse 23. By thy sorceries] Political arts, state tricks, counterfeit miracles, and deceptive manoeuvres of every kind. This may be spoken of many great cities of the world, which still continue to flourish!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee , etc.] Either for common use, or at feasts, or at marriages, which being kept at night, required candies, lamps, or torches; this shows that Babylon, or Rome, shall be deprived of everything, even of the least thing that is comfortable in life; (see Jeremiah 25:10) this will be a just punishment upon her for her abuse of this blessing of life; so where wax candles in great numbers have been burning in the daytime, there will not be so much as a single candle to give light in the night; and where candles have been lighted up for the dead, there will not be one for the use of the living: and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : there will be no marrying, nor giving in marriage; no procreation of children, or propagation of posterity, in this place; which denotes the utter extirpation of the inhabitants of it; the phrases are taken from ( Jeremiah 7:34 16:19) ( Jeremiah 25:10,11) and this will be in righteous retaliation for the prohibition of marriage; which God has instituted, and is honourable, ( 1 Timothy 4:2) the reasons of Babylon's destruction follow: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth : in allusion to the merchants of Tyre, said to be princes, ( Isaiah 23:8) for by trading and dealing in the wares and merchandise of Rome, persons of mean extract, and of very low circumstances of life, have grown exceeding rich, and have equalled the princes of the earth; as for instance, Cardinal Wolsey here in England, a butcher's son at Ipswich; and on the other hand, the princes and great men of the earth have become Rome's merchants, and have thought it an high honour to get a cardinal's hat, as the Cardinals Albertus duke of Austria, Bourbon, Pool, and others, mentioned by Brightman: for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived ; meaning her false doctrines, traditions, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, with which, as another Jezebel, she has bewitched, allured, and deceived the nations of the empire, and the kings thereof, ( Revelation 18:3).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-24 - That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, i matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who ar honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous manner, wil rejoice in her fall. The fall of Babylon was an act of God's justice And because it was a final ruin, this enemy should never molest the any more; of this they were assured by a sign. Let us take warning from the things which brought others to destruction, and let us set ou affections on things above, when we consider the changeable nature of earthly things __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 φως 5457 λυχνου 3088 ου 3756 μη 3361 φανη 5316 5652 εν 1722 σοι 4671 ετι 2089 και 2532 φωνη 5456 νυμφιου 3566 και 2532 νυμφης 3565 ου 3756 μη 3361 ακουσθη 191 5686 εν 1722 σοι 4671 ετι 2089 οτι 3754 οι 3588 εμποροι 1713 σου 4675 ησαν 2258 5713 οι 3588 μεγιστανες 3175 της 3588 γης 1093 οτι 3754 εν 1722 τη 3588 φαρμακεια 5331 σου 4675 επλανηθησαν 4105 5681 παντα 3956 τα 3588 εθνη 1484
Vincent's NT Word Studies
23. Bridegroom - bride. Compare Jer. xxv. 10.
Great men (megistanev). Rev., princes. See on ch. vi. 15.
By thy sorceries (en th farmakeia sou). See on ch. ix. 21. Rev., more literally, with thy sorcery.
Were deceived (eplanhqhsan). Or led astray. See on Mark xii. 24.
