18:14 (The ripe fruit 10 you greatly desired 11
has gone from you,
and all your luxury 12 and splendor 13
have gone from you –
they will never ever be found again!) 14
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the woman’s escape.
2 tn Grk “her seed” (an idiom for offspring, children, or descendants).
3 tn Or “who obey.”
4 tn Grk “and having.”
5 tn Grk “the testimony of Jesus,” which may involve a subjective genitive (“Jesus’ testimony”) or, more likely, an objective genitive (“testimony about Jesus”).
6 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the dragon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tc Grk ἐστάθη (estaqh, “he stood”). The reading followed by the translation is attested by the better
8 tn Or “sandy beach” (L&N 1.64).
9 sn The standard critical texts of the Greek NT, NA27 and UBS4, both include this sentence as 12:18, as do the RSV and NRSV. Other modern translations like the NASB and NIV include the sentence at the beginning of 13:1; in these versions chap. 12 has only 17 verses.
10 tn On ὀπώρα (opwra) L&N 3.34 states, “ἡ ὀπώρα σου τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ψυχῆς ‘the ripe fruit for which you longed’ Re 18:14. In this one occurrence of ὀπώρα in the NT, ‘ripe fruit’ is to be understood in a figurative sense of ‘good things.’”
11 tn Grk “you desired in your soul.”
12 tn On λιπαρός (liparo") BDAG 597 s.v. states, “luxury Rv 18:14.”
13 tn On τὰ λαμπρά (ta lampra) BDAG 585 s.v. λαμπρός 4 states, “splendor…in which a rich man takes delight (cp. Jos., Ant. 12, 220 δωρεὰς δοὺς λαμπράς) Rv 18:14.”
14 tn Verse 14 is set in parentheses because in it the city, Babylon, is addressed directly in second person.
19 tn Grk “God, and he.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
20 tn For the translation of ἀπέρχομαι (apercomai; here ἀπῆλθαν [aphlqan]) L&N 13.93 has “to go out of existence – ‘to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease.’”