Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 18:17

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17. is come to naught — Greek, "is desolated." shipmaster — Greek, "steersman," or "pilot." all the company in ships —A, C, Vulgate, and Syriac read, "Every one who saileth to a place" (B has ". . . to the place"), every voyager. Vessels were freighted with pilgrims to various shrines, so that in one month () two hundred thousand pilgrims were counted in Rome [D'AAUBIGNE, Histoire de la Reformation ]: a source of gain, not only to the Papal see, but to shipmasters, merchants, pilots, &c. These latter, however, are not restricted to those literally "shipmasters," &c., but mainly refer, in the mystical sense, to all who share in the spiritual traffic of apostate Christendom. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-18" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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절 (explains)

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Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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