Discovery BoxRevelation 18:4-5 
Context18:4 Then 1 I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues, 18:5 because her sins have piled 2 up all the way to heaven 3 and God has remembered 4 her crimes. 5
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.
2 tn On ἐκολλήθησαν (ekollhqhsan) BDAG 556 s.v. κολλάω 2.a.β states, “fig. cling to = come in close contact with (cp. Ps 21:16; 43:26 ἐκολλήθη εἰς γῆν ἡ γαστὴρ ἡμῶν. The act.=‘bring into contact’ PGM 5, 457 κολλήσας τ. λίθον τῷ ὠτίῳ) ἐκολλήθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τ. οὐρανοῦ the sins have touched the heaven = reached the sky (two exprs. are telescoped) Rv 18:5.”
3 tn Or “up to the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
4 tn That is, remembered her sins to execute judgment on them.
5 tn Or “her sins.”
