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Revelation 18 — Sermon Preparation
An angel announces the fall of Babylon, and kings, merchants, and sailors mourn as the great city is destroyed in a single hour. Below is a research summary for Revelation 18, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 24
- verses
- 625 / 197
- Greek words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Revelation 18 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μέγας | mégas | G3173 | 8 | exceedingly, great, high, large |
| γῆ | gē | G1093 | 7 | country, earth, ground, land |
| ἔμπορος | émporos | G1713 | 4 | merchant |
| πόλις | pólis | G4172 | 6 | city |
| ἰσχυρός | ischyrós | G2478 | 4 | boisterous, mighty, powerful, strong |
| φωνή | phōnḗ | G5456 | 5 | noise, sound, voice |
| κλαίω | klaíō | G2799 | 4 | bewail, weep |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 18, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We have here, I. An angel proclaiming the fall of Babylon, ver. 1, 2. II. Assigning the reasons of her fall, ver. 3. III. Giving warning to all who belonged to God to come out of her (ver. 4, 5), and to assist in her destruction, ver. 6-8. IV. The great lamentation made for her by those who had been large sharers in her sinful pleasures and profits, ver. 9-19. V. The great joy that there would be among others at the sight of her irrecoverable ruin, ver. 20, &c. The Fall of Babylon. (a. d. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 18:1–25 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Babylon 3— Rev 18:10
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