Revelation · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Revelation 17 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Και ήλθεν εις εκ των επτά αγγέλων των εχόντων τας επτά φιάλας, και ελάλησε μετ' εμού, λέγων μοι· Ελθέ, θέλω σοι δείξει την κρίσιν της πόρνης της μεγάλης της καθημένης επί των υδάτων των πολλών,
1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
2 μετά της οποίας επόρνευσαν οι βασιλείς της γης και εμεθύσθησαν οι κατοικούντες την γην εκ του οίνου της πορνείας αυτής.
2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell on the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
3 Και με έφερεν εν πνεύματι εις έρημον. Και είδον γυναίκα καθημένην επί θηρίον κόκκινον, γέμον ονομάτων βλασφημίας, έχον κεφαλάς επτά και κέρατα δέκα.
3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 Και η γυνή ήτο ενδεδυμένη πορφύραν και κόκκινον και κεχρυσωμένη με χρυσόν και λίθους τιμίους και μαργαρίτας, έχουσα εν τη χειρί αυτής χρυσούν ποτήριον γέμον βδελυγμάτων και ακαθαρσίας της πορνείας αυτής,
4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
5 και επί το μέτωπον αυτής ήτο όνομα γεγραμμένον· Μυστήριον, Βαβυλών η μεγάλη, η μήτηρ των πορνών και των βδελυγμάτων της γης.
5 And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
6 Και είδον την γυναίκα μεθύουσαν εκ του αίματος των αγίων και εκ του αίματος των μαρτύρων του Ιησού. Και ιδών αυτήν, εθαύμασα θαυμασμόν μέγαν.
6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
7 Και μοι είπεν ο άγγελος. Διά τι εθαύμασας; εγώ θέλω σοι ειπεί το μυστήριον της γυναικός και του θηρίου του βαστάζοντος αυτήν, το οποίον έχει τας επτά κεφαλάς και τα δέκα κέρατα.
7 The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
8 Το θηρίον, το οποίον είδες, ήτο και δεν είναι, και μέλλει να αναβή εκ της αβύσσου και να υπάγη εις απώλειαν· και θέλουσι θαυμάσει οι κατοικούντες επί της γης, των οποίων τα ονόματα δεν είναι γεγραμμένα εν τω βιβλίω της ζωής από καταβολής κόσμου, βλέποντες το θηρίον, το οποίον ήτο και δεν είναι, αν και ήναι.
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
9 Εδώ είναι ο νούς ο έχων σοφίαν. Αι επτά κεφαλαί είναι επτά όρη, όπου η γυνή κάθηται επ' αυτών·
9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
10 και είναι επτά βασιλείς· οι πέντε έπεσαν, και ο εις είναι, ο άλλος δεν ήλθεν έτι, και όταν έλθη, ολίγον πρέπει να μείνη.
10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
11 Και το θηρίον, το οποίον ήτο και δεν είναι, είναι και αυτός ο όγδοος, και είναι εκ των επτά, και υπάγει εις απώλειαν.
11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
12 Και τα δέκα κέρατα, τα οποία είδες, είναι δέκα βασιλείς, οίτινες βασιλείαν δεν έλαβον έτι, αλλά μίαν ώραν λαμβάνουσιν εξουσίαν ως βασιλείς μετά του θηρίου.
12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
13 Ούτοι έχουσι μίαν γνώμην και θέλουσι παραδώσει εις το θηρίον την δύναμιν και την εξουσίαν εαυτών.
13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
14 Ούτοι θέλουσι πολεμήσει με το Αρνίον, και το Αρνίον θέλει νικήσει αυτούς, διότι είναι Κύριος των κυρίων και Βασιλεύς των βασιλέων, και όσοι είναι μετ' αυτού είναι κλητοί και εκλεκτοί και πιστοί.
14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
15 Και μοι λέγει· Τα ύδατα, τα οποία είδες, όπου η πόρνη κάθηται, είναι λαοί και όχλοι και έθνη και γλώσσαι.
15 He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
16 Και τα δέκα κέρατα, τα οποία είδες επί το θηρίον, ούτοι θέλουσι μισήσει την πόρνην και θέλουσι κάμει αυτήν ηρημωμένην και γυμνήν, και τας σάρκας αυτής θέλουσι φάγει, και αυτήν θέλουσι κατακαύσει εν πυρί.
16 The ten horns which you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
17 Διότι ο Θεός έδωκεν εις τας καρδίας αυτών να κάμωσι την γνώμην αυτού, και να γείνωσι της αυτής γνώμης και να δώσωσι την βασιλείαν αυτών εις το θηρίον, εωσού εκτελεσθώσιν οι λόγοι του Θεού.
17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
18 Και η γυνή, την οποίαν είδες, είναι η πόλις η μεγάλη, η έχουσα βασιλείαν επί των βασιλέων.
18 The woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Revelation 19:2; Revelation 17:1–17; Jeremiah 51:13; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 21:9
- 2 Revelation 14:8; Jeremiah 51:7; Revelation 18:3; Revelation 18:9; Revelation 18:23
- 3 Revelation 12:3; Revelation 13:1–6; Revelation 17:9–12; Revelation 17:18; Revelation 17:6–7
- 4 Jeremiah 51:7; Revelation 18:16; Revelation 19:2; Revelation 18:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–10
- 5 Revelation 18:2; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 17:7; Revelation 16:19; Isaiah 3:9
- 6 Revelation 16:6; Revelation 13:15; Revelation 2:13; Daniel 7:25; Revelation 12:11
- 7 Revelation 17:1–6; Revelation 17:8
- 8 Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:11; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 9:1–2; Revelation 19:15–21
- 9 Revelation 13:18; Revelation 17:7; Daniel 12:4; Daniel 12:8–10; Matthew 24:15
- 11 Revelation 17:8
- 12 Revelation 12:3; Revelation 13:1; Zechariah 1:18–21; Daniel 7:24; Revelation 17:16
- 13 Revelation 17:17; Ezekiel 38:10; Philippians 1:27; Philippians 2:2; Isaiah 10:5–7
- 14 Romans 8:30; 1 Timothy 6:15; Matthew 22:14; Revelation 3:21; Deuteronomy 10:17
- 15 Revelation 17:1; Jeremiah 51:13; Jeremiah 51:55; Isaiah 8:7–8; Psalm 65:7
- 16 Revelation 18:8; Ezekiel 16:37–44; Leviticus 21:9; Jeremiah 50:41–42; Revelation 18:16–17
- 17 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Proverbs 21:1; Revelation 10:7; Ezra 7:27
- 18 Revelation 16:19; Revelation 18:2; Daniel 7:23; Daniel 2:40–41
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For that peoples are signified under the name of waters the Apocalypse of John clearly indicates to us, where, after he had been shown many waters, and he had asked what they were, was answered that they were peoples. That water, then--namely, that people--was shut in by the five books of Moses, as by five porches.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)