17:3 So5 he carried me away in the Spirit6 to a wilderness,7 and there8 I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s invitation to witness the fate of the prostitute.
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tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).