Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I will show thee (deicw soi). Future active of deiknumi. It is fitting that one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls should explain the judgment on Babylon (Revelation 16:19) already pronounced (Revelation 14:8). That is now done in chapters Rev. 17; 18.
The judgment of the great harlot (to krima thv pornhv thv megalhv). The word krima is the one used about the doom of Babylon in Jeremiah 51:9. Already in Revelation 14:8 Babylon is called the harlot. Pornhv is the objective genitive, "the judgment on the great harlot."
That sitteth upon many waters (thv kaqhmenhv epi udatwn pollwn). Note triple use of the article thv. In Jeremiah 51:13 we have ef udasi polloiv (locative in place of genitive as here). Babylon got its wealth by means of the Euphrates and the numerous canals for irrigation. Rome does not have such a system of canals, but this item is taken and applied to the New Babylon in Revelation 17:15. Nahum (Nahum 3:4) calls Nineveh a harlot, as Isaiah (Isaiah 23:16 f.) does Tyre.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 5:8
Revelation 6:1
Revelation 17:3
Revelation 17:15
Revelation 18:1
Revelation 18:20
Revelation 19:9
Revelation 21:9
Revelation 22:8
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