Discovery BoxRevelation 2:22 
Context2:22 Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, 1 and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, 2 unless they repent of her deeds.
Revelation 9:3
Context9:3 Then 3 out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power 4 like that of the scorpions of the earth.
1 tn Grk “onto a bed,” in this context an idiom for severe illness (L&N 23.152).
2 tn Or “into great distress.” The suffering here is not specified as physical or emotional, and could involve persecution.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
4 tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”
