Revelation 17:4

Footnotes

1. 9 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the detailed description of the woman, which is somewhat parenthetical in nature.
2. 10 The word “clothing” is supplied to clarify that the words “purple” and “scarlet” refer to cloth or garments rather than colors.
3. 11 Grk “gilded with gold” (an instance of semantic reinforcement, see L&N 49.29).
4. 12 Grk “pearls, having in her hand.” Due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5. 13 Several (including 1611 1854 2053 𝔐K ) read “sexual immorality on/of the earth” (πορνείας τῆς γῆς, porneias tēs gēs) instead of “her sexual immorality.” Other (א syh** [co]) read “her sexual immorality and the earth’s” (πορνείας αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς γῆς, porneias aujtēs kai tēs gēs). The translation is a rendering of πορνείας αὐτῆς, found in {A 1006 2344 }. It seems that the first reading “sexuality immorality on/of the earth” was a scribal mistake in which letters may have been confused (ΑΥΤΗΣ would have been read as ΤΗΣΓΗΣ), or was perhaps influenced by the presence of “of the world” (τῆς γῆς) at the end of v. 5. The original wording seems to be “her sexual immorality”; codex א has conflated the two readings.