Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 18:9

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9. lived deliciously — Greek, "luxuriated." The faithless Church, instead of reproving, connived at the self-indulgent luxury of the great men of this world, and sanctioned it by her own practice. Contrast the world's rejoicing over the dead bodies of the two witnesses ( :- ) who had tormented it by their faithfulness, with its lamentations over the harlot who had made the way to heaven smooth, and had been found a useful tool in keeping subjects in abject tyranny. Men's carnal mind relishes a religion like that of the apostate Church, which gives an opiate to conscience, while leaving the sinner license to indulge his lusts. bewail her —A, B, C, Syriac, Coptic, and CYPRIAN omit "her." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"

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