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**Verse 1**
*And after these things,* &c. The visions described in this and in the following chapter are evidently intended to represent, by vivid images, the certain and terrible destruction of the great anti-Christian power represented by Babylon.

**Verse 2**
*The habitation of devils;* of demons, which are often spoken of as dwelling in desert and desolate places. This an the subsequent clauses express desolation and abandonment, not mere moral corruption.

**Verse 8**
*In one day;* suddenly. This and similar expressions, in [Revelation 18:10](../../../kjv/revelation/18/10),[Revelation 18:17](../../../kjv/revelation/18/17),[Revelation 18:21](../../../kjv/revelation/18/21), indicate, in the opinion of some commentators, that Jerusalem was the city intended; as the destruction of that city was sudden and overwhelming.

**Verse 9**
*Shall bewail her.* The kings are represented in [Revelation 17:16](../../../kjv/revelation/17/16), as conspiring to effect the ruin of the woman, who seems to be the same as Babylon ([Revelation 17:5](../../../kjv/revelation/17/5).) We may suppose that some of them had turned against her, while others lamented her downfall,--or we may consider it as a change in the imagery, both representations denoting, in different ways, the certainty of her overthrow.

**Verse 12**
*Thyine;* a fragrant wood.

**Verse 13**
*And souls of men;* men having souls.

**Verse 16**
Here the writer returns to the image of the woman, by which the city was represented in the [Revelation 17:1-18](../../../kjv/revelation/17/1-18).

**Verse 21**
*A mighty angel;* that is, another angel, who comes forward to present, in still different language, a view of the greatness and the certainty of the impending destruction.

**Verse 24**
*Was found the blood of prophets;* that is, the guilt of shedding that blood.

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