Revelation 18:2
ContextNETBible | He 1 shouted with a powerful voice: “Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great! She 2 has become a lair for demons, a haunt 3 for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detested beast. 4 |
XREF | Le 11:13-19; Isa 13:19; Isa 13:20-22; Isa 14:23; Isa 21:8; Isa 21:9; Isa 34:11-15; Jer 25:30; Jer 50:39,40; Jer 51:8,60-64; Jer 51:37; Joe 3:16; Mr 5:3-5; Lu 8:27,28; Re 1:15; Re 5:2; Re 10:3; Re 14:8; Re 14:15; Re 16:19; Re 17:5,18; Re 18:10,21 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style 2 tn Or “It” (the subject is embedded in the verb in Greek; the verb only indicates that it is third person). Since the city has been personified as the great prostitute, the feminine pronoun was used in the translation. 3 tn Here BDAG 1067 s.v. φυλακή 3 states, “a place where guarding is done, prison…Of the nether world or its place of punishment (πνεῦμα 2 and 4c) 1 Pt 3:19 (BReicke, The Disobedient Spirits and Christian Baptism ’46, 116f). It is in a φ. in the latter sense that Satan will be rendered harmless during the millennium Rv 20:7. The fallen city of Babylon becomes a φυλακή haunt for all kinds of unclean spirits and birds 18:2ab.” 4 tc There are several problems in this verse. It seems that according to the ms evidence the first two phrases (i.e., “and a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean bird” [καὶ φυλακὴ παντὸς πνεύματος ἀκαθάρτου καὶ φυλακὴ παντὸς ὀρνέου ἀκαθάρτου, kai fulakh panto" pneumato" akaqartou kai fulakh panto" orneou akaqartou]) are to be regarded as authentic, though there are some ms discrepancies. The similar beginnings (καὶ φυλακὴ παντός) and endings (ἀκαθάρτου) of each phrase would easily account for some |