God ever comforts and counsels his, what they ought to do ;

From :
The 1560 -1599 A.D.
Geneva Bible New Testament ;

The Revelation
Of Saint John The Apostle
& Evangelist With the Annotations
Of Francis Junius & Chapter 18 :

2 The horrible
destruction of Babylon set out.

11-18 The merchants
of the earth, who were enriched
with the pomp and luxuriousness
of it, weep and wail;

20 but all the elect rejoice
for that just vengeance of God.

1 And (1) after these things,
I saw another (2) Angel come
down from heaven, having great
power, so that the earth was
lightened with his glory,

(1) The second place
(as I said before, Revelation 17:1)
of the history of Babylon, is of the
woeful fall and ruin of that whore
of Babylon.

This historical prediction
concerning her, is threefold.

The first a plain and simple foretelling
of her ruin, in three verses Re 18:2,3 .

The second a figurative prediction
of her ruin in three verses,
Revelation 18:1-3 .

The second a figurative prediction
by the circumstances thence unto the
twentieth verse, Revelation 18:4-20 .

The third, a confirmation of the same
by sign or wonder, unto the end of
the Chapter, Revelation 18:21-24 .

(2) Either Christ the eternal word of
God the Father (as often elsewhere)
or a created Angel, and one deputed
unto this service, but thoroughly furnished
with greatness of power, and with light
of glory, as the ensign of power.

2 And he cried out mightily with a
loud voice, (3) saying, (*) () It is fallen,
it is fallen, Babylon the great city, and is
become the habitation of (()) devils, and
the hold of all foul spirits, and a cage of
every unclean and hateful bird.

(3) The prediction or foreshewing
of her ruin, containing both the fall
of Babylon, in this verse, and the
cause thereof uttered by way of
allegory concerning her spiritual and
carnal wickedness, that is, her most
great impiety and injustice,
in Revelation 18:3 .

Her fall is first simply declared
of the Angel, and then the greatness
thereof is shewed here, by the events
when he saith it shall be the seat and
habitation of devils, of wild beasts, and
of cursed souls, as of old in Isaiah 13:21
and often elsewhere.

(*) Revelation 14:8; Isaiah 21:9;
Jeremiah 51:8 .

() This description of the overthrow of
the great whore is like to that whereby
the prophets used to declare the
destruction of Babylon.

(()) He describeth Rome
to be the sink of all abomination
and devilishness, and a kind of hell.

3 For (*) all nations
have drunken of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication,
and the Kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth
are waxed rich of the abundance
of her pleasures.

(*) The greatest part of the world
hath been abused and seduced by
this spiritual whoredom.

4 (4) And I heard another voice
from heaven say, (5) (*) Go out
of her, my people, that ye (6) be
not partakers of her sins, and that
ye receive not of her plagues.

(4) The second prediction, which is
of the circumstances of the ruin of
Babylon; of these there are two kinds :
one going before it, as that beforehand
the godly are delivered unto the ninth
verse Revelation 18:5-9; the other
following upon her ruin, namely the
lamentation of the wicked and rejoicing
of the godly, unto the twentieth verse
Revelation 18:10-20 .

(5) Two circumstance going before
the ruin, are commanded in this place :
one is, that the godly depart out of
Babylon; as I mentioned in chapter
twelve to have been done in time past,
before the destruction of Jerusalem;
this charge is given here, and in the
next verse.

The other is, that every one of them
occupy themselves in their own place,
in executing the judgment of God, as it
was commanded of the Levites of old
in Exodus 32:27; and that they sanctify
their hands unto the Lord,
Revelation 18:6-8 .

(*) When God threateneth
the wicked, he ever comforteth
and counseleth his what they ought
to do, that is, that they do not
communicate with the sins
of the wicked.

(6) Of this commandment there are
two causes : to avoid the contamination
of sin, and to shun the participation of
those punishments that belong thereunto.

5 For her sins are (a) (*) come up unto
heaven, and God hath remembered
her iniquities.

(a) He useth a word which signifieth
the following of sins one after another,
and rising one another in such sort, that
they grow at length to such a heap, that
they came up even to heaven.

(*) The Greek word is, that her sins
so follow one another, and so rise one
after another that they grow to such a
heap, that at length they touch the very
heaven.

6 (7) (*) Reward her, even as she
hath rewarded you, and give her double
according to her works; and in the cup
that she hath filled to you, fill her
the double.

(7) The provocation of the godly,
and the commandment of executing
the judgments of God, stand upon
three causes which are here expressed :
the unjust wickedness of the whore of
Babylon, in this verse, her cursed pride
opposing itself against God, which is the
fountain of all evil actions, Revelation 18:7;
and her most just damnation by the
sentence of God, Revelation 18:8 .

(*) Blessed is he that can repay
to the whore the like, as is written,
Psalm 137:9 .

7 In as much as she glorified herself,
and lived in pleasure, so much give ye
to her torment and sorrow; for she saith
(b) in her heart, (*) I sit being () a queen,
and am (c) no (()) widow, and shall
(d) see no mourning.

(b) With herself.

(*) Isaiah 47:8 .

() The glorious
boasting of the strumpet.

(c) I am full of people and mighty.

() But full of people an mighty.

(d) I shall taste of none.

8 Therefore shall her plagues come
at (e) one day, death, and sorrow, and
famine, and she shall be burned with fire;
for strong is the Lord God which will
condemn her.

(e) Shortly and at one instant.

9 And the (8) kings of the earth shall
bewail her, and lament for her, which
have committed fornication, and lived
in pleasure with her, when they shall
see the smoke of her burning,

(8) The circumstances following the fall
of Babylon, or the consequences thereof
(as I distinguished them in Revelation 18:4)
are two.

Namely the lamentation of the wicked unto
Revelation 18:5-19; and the rejoicing
of the godly in Revelation 18:20 .

This most sorrowful lamentation,
according to the persons of them that
lament, hath three members: the first
whereof is the mourning of the kings
and mighty men of the earth,
Revelation 18:9-10;

The second is, the lamentation of
the merchants that trade by land,
thence unto the sixteenth verse,
Revelation 18:11-16 .

The third is, the wailing
of those that merchandise
by sea, in Revelation 18:16-18 .

In every of these the cause
and manner of their mourning is
described in order, according to
the condition of those that mourn,
with observation of that which best
agreeth unto them.

10 And shall stand afar off for fear
of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the
great city Babylon, the mighty city, for
in one hour is thy judgment come.

11 (9) And the (*) merchants of the
earth shall weep and wail over her,
for no man buyeth their ware anymore.

(9) The lamentation of those that
trade by land, as I distinguished
immediately before.

(*) Both they that temporally have
had profit by the strumpet, and also
the spiritual merchants shall for sorrow
and want of their gain cry out and
despair.

12 The ware of gold,
and silver, and of precious stone,
and of pearls, and of fine linen, and
of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet,
and of all manner of thyine (*) wood,
and of all vessels of ivory, and of all
vessels of most precious wood, and
of brass, and of iron, and of marble,

(*) Which is very
odoriferous and precious.

13 And of cinnamon, and odors,
and ointments, and frankincense,
and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and
wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and
horses, and (*) chariots, and servants,
and () souls of men.

(*) Such as the wantons use at Rome.

() This is the vilest ware
that these merchants sell, and best
cheap, which souls notwithstanding
the Son of God redeemed with his
precious blood, 1 Peter 1:19 .

14 ( (10) And the (f) (*) apples
that thy soul lusted after, are departed
from thee, and all things which were fat
and excellent, are departed from thee,
and thou shalt find them no more.)

(10) An apostrophe,
or turning of the speech by imitation,
used for more vehemency, as if those
merchants, after the manner of mourners,
should in passionate speech speak unto
Babylon, though now utterly fallen and
overthrown; Isaiah 13:9; and in many
other places.

(f) By this is meant that season which
is next before the fall of the leaf, at what
season fruit ripens, and the word signifieth
such fruits as are longed for.

(*) That is, the things
which thou lovedst best.

15 The merchants of these things
which were waxed rich, shall stand
afar off from her, for fear of her torment,
weeping and wailing,

16 And saying, Alas, alas,
the great city, that was clothed in fine
linen and purple, and scarlet, and gilded
with gold, and precious stones, and
pearls.

17 (11) For in one hour so great
riches are come to desolation. And
every shipmaster, and all the people
that occupy ships, and shipmen, and
whosoever traffic on the sea, shall
stand afar off,

(11) The manner of mourning
used by them that trade by sea.

18 And cry, when they see the smoke
of her burning, saying, What city was
like unto this great city?

19 And they shall cast
(*) dust on their heads,
and cry, weeping, and wailing,
and say, Alas, alas, the great city,
wherein were made rich all that had
ships on the sea by her () costliness,
for in one hour she is made desolate.

(*) And so shew
sigs of great sorrow.

() Or, noble estate.

20 (12) O heaven, rejoice of her,
and ye holy Apostles and Prophets,
for God hath (*) given your judgment
on her.

(12) The other consequence
unto the other ruin of Babylon,
is the exultation or rejoicing of the
godly in heaven and in earth, as was
noted in verse nine.

(*) And hath revenged
your cause in punishing her.

21 (13) Then a mighty Angel
took up a stone like a great millstone,
(*) and cast it into the sea, saying, With
such violence shall the great city Babylon
be cast, and shall be () found no more.

(13) The third
prediction, as I said
in Revelation 18:1; standing
of a sign, and the interpretation
thereof; the interpretation thereof
is in two sorts, first by a simple
propounding of the thing itself, in
this verse, and then by declaration
of the events, in the verses following.

(*) Jeremiah 51:63 .

() It shall not be like to other cities
which may be built again, but it shall
be destroyed without mercy.

22 (14) And the voice of harpers,
and musicians, and of pipers, and
trumpeters shall be heard no more in
thee, and no craftsman, of whatsoever
craft he be, shall be found anymore in
thee; and the sound of a millstone
shall be heard no more in thee.

(14) The events are two,
and one of them opposite unto
the other for amplification sake.

There shall be, saith he, in Babylon
no mirth nor joy at all, in this and the
next verse, Revelation 18:23; but all
heavy and lamentable things, from the
bloody slaughters of the righteous and
the vengeance of God coming upon it
for the same.

23 And the light of a candle shall
shine no more in thee; and the voice
of the bridegroom and of the bride
shall be heard no more in thee; for
thy (*) merchants were the great men
of the earth, and with thy enchantments
were deceived all nations.

(*) The Romish prelates
and merchants of souls are
as Kings and princes; so that
their covetousness and pride must
be punished; secondly their crafts
and deceits; and thirdly their cruelty.

24 And in her was found
the (15) blood of the Prophets,
(16) and of the Saints, and of all
that were slain upon the earth.

(15) That is, shed by bloody
massacres, and calling for vengeance.

(16) That is, proved
and found out, as if God had
appointed a just inquiry concerning
the impiety, unnaturalness and injustice
of those men.

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