Revelation 17:3
ContextNETBible | So 1 he carried me away in the Spirit 2 to a wilderness, 3 and there 4 I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. |
XREF | 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; So 8:5; Eze 3:12; Eze 8:3; Eze 11:24; Da 7:8,20,25; Da 11:36; Ac 8:39; 2Th 2:4; Re 1:10; Re 4:2; Re 12:3; Re 12:6,14; Re 13:1-6; Re 13:1; Re 17:4,6,18; Re 17:9-12; Re 21:10 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s invitation to witness the fate of the prostitute. 2 tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75). 3 tn Or “desert.” 4 tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons. |