Discovery BoxRevelation 16:15 
Context16:15 (Look! I will come like a thief!
Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose 1 his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition 2 be seen.) 3
Revelation 17:16
Context17:16 The 4 ten horns that you saw, and the beast – these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They 5 will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire. 6
1 tn Grk “and keeps.” BDAG 1002 s.v. τηρέω 2.c states “of holding on to someth. so as not to give it up or lose it…τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ Rv 16:15 (or else he will have to go naked).”
2 tn On the translation of ἀσχημοσύνη (aschmosunh) as “shameful condition” see L&N 25.202. The indefinite third person plural (“and they see”) has been translated as a passive here.
3 sn These lines are parenthetical, forming an aside to the narrative. The speaker here is the Lord Jesus Christ himself rather than the narrator. Many interpreters have seen this verse as so abrupt that it could not be an original part of the work, but the author has used such asides before (1:7; 14:13) and the suddenness here (on the eve of Armageddon) is completely parallel to Jesus’ warning in Mark 13:15-16 and parallels.
4 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
5 tn A new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
6 tn The final clause could also be turned into an adverbial clause of means: “They will consume her flesh by burning her with fire.”
