Discovery BoxRevelation 4:8 
Context4:8 Each one of the four living creatures had six wings 1 and was full of eyes all around and inside. 2 They never rest day or night, saying: 3
“Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, 4
Who was and who is, and who is still to come!”
Revelation 18:21
Context18:21 Then 5 one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,
“With this kind of sudden violent force 6
Babylon the great city will be thrown down 7
and it will never be found again!
Revelation 19:18
Context19:18 to eat 8 your fill 9 of the flesh of kings,
the flesh of generals, 10
the flesh of powerful people,
the flesh of horses and those who ride them,
and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, 11
and small and great!”
1 tn Grk “six wings apiece,” but this is redundant with “each one” in English.
2 tn Some translations render ἔσωθεν (eswqen) as “under [its] wings,” but the description could also mean “filled all around on the outside and on the inside with eyes.” Since the referent is not available to the interpreter, the exact force is difficult to determine.
3 tn Or “They never stop saying day and night.”
4 tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”
sn A quotation from (or an allusion to) Isa 6:3.
5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.
6 tn On ὅρμημα ({ormhma) BDAG 724 s.v. states, “violent rush, onset ὁρμήματι βληθήσεται Βαβυλών Babylon will be thrown down with violence Rv 18:21.” L&N 68.82 refers to the suddenness of the force or violence.
7 sn Thrown down is a play on both the words and the action. The angel’s action with the stone illustrates the kind of sudden violent force with which the city will be overthrown.
8 tn The ἵνα (Jina) clause, insofar as it is related to the first imperative, has the force of an imperative.
9 tn The idea of eating “your fill” is evident in the context with the use of χορτάζω (cortazw) in v. 21.
10 tn Grk “chiliarchs”; normally a chiliarch was a military officer commanding a thousand soldiers, but here probably used of higher-ranking commanders like generals (see L&N 55.15; cf. Rev 6:15).
