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- Revelation
- Chapter 18
- Verse 5
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
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Gill's Exposition
For her sins have reached unto heaven,.... Or "have followed unto heaven"; one after another, in one age after another, until they have been as it were heaped up together, and have reached the…
Barnes' Notes
For her sins have reached unto heaven - So in Jer 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, “For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.” The meaning is not that the sins…
Adam Clarke
Her sins have reached unto heaven - They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice.
The downfall and destruction of Babylon form an event so fully determined in the counsels of God, and of such consequence to his interests and glory, that the visions and predictions concerning it are…
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