What Does Revelation 18:10 Mean in the King James?
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse puts “mighty” beside a judgment that arrives in an hour, showing that power does not make a city untouchable.
THE MEANING
Right now, visible might does not keep a city from reaching its judgment in an hour. The watchers stand far off because its torment terrifies them; their cry holds the city’s scale and sudden end together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Power guarantees that a structure is beyond sudden judgment.
THE ROOT
κρίσις
krisis
GROWS FROM
κριν
To separate, decide, or judge.
“judgment” in this verse is krisis. The word carries the sense of a decision that distinguishes one outcome from another. The city’s might does not prevent that decision from arriving; “in one hour” makes the sudden change in its standing part of the verse’s force.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: To decide or judge.
κρίνω
This verb shares the κριν root and makes clear that the city’s κρίσις is a judgment rendered, not merely a general misfortune.
anakrinō: To examine, investigate, or evaluate.
ἀνακρίνω
This prefixed verb retains the κριν root; its sense of examination and decision illuminates the verdict named in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Apparent security cannot prevent a sudden reckoning.
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?THE THREAD
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.The word rendered “condemnation” here is κρίσις (krisis, judgment), from the same κριν (krin, decide or judge) root as the city’s judgment. John places that judgment beside passing from death to life, opening the word beyond Babylon’s collapse to a decisive outcome a person does not enter.
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