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Revelation 2:15

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2:15 In the same way, there are also some among you who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 1 

Revelation 18:5

Context
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 The term ὁμοίως (Jomoiws, “likewise”) is left untranslated because it is quite redundant.

sn See the note on the term Nicolaitans in 2:6.

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.”



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