Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
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Gill's Exposition
Reward her even as she rewarded you,.... This is spoken to the people of God, who are before called out of Babylon; and the chief of them are the seven angels with the seven last plagues of the wrath…
Barnes' Notes
Reward her even as she rewarded you - It is not said to whom this command is addressed, but it would seem to be to those who had been persecuted and wronged. Applied to mystical Babylon - papal Rome -…
Adam Clarke
Reward her even as she rewarded you - These words are a prophetic declaration of what shall take place: God will deal with her as she dealt with others.
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…
Cambridge Bible
rewarded you "You" should be omitted: a better translation would be, Render to her as she herself rendered. The thought is founded on Psa 137:8; Jer 50:15; Jer 50:29, and the expression on the former…
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