Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Revelation 18:23

Context
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Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations 1  were deceived by your magic spells! 2 

XREF

2Ki 9:22; Job 21:17; Pr 4:18,19; Pr 24:20; Isa 23:8; Isa 47:9; Eze 27:24,25,33,34; Na 3:4; Ac 8:11; Re 12:9; Re 13:13-16; Re 17:2,5; Re 18:3,11-19; Re 18:3,9; Re 18:22; Re 21:8; Re 22:5; Re 22:15

NET © Notes

tn Or “all the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

tn On the term φαρμακεία (farmakeia, “magic spells”) see L&N 53.100: “the use of magic, often involving drugs and the casting of spells upon people – ‘to practice magic, to cast spells upon, to engage in sorcery, magic, sorcery.’ φαρμακεία: ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ‘with your magic spells you deceived all the peoples (of the world)’ Re 18:23.”



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