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Revelation 18

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revelation.18.rev1814Fruit

οὐ μὴ αὐτὰ εὑρήσουσιν / εὕρῃς

TEXTTRANSLATIONmoderate confidence

Who will no longer find Babylon's luxuries?

WH, Tregelles, and NA28 say 'they will not find them'; RP shifts the subject to Babylon: 'you will not find them.'

Why this default

The third-person plural leads because the principal critical editions support it; in context it generalizes Babylon’s vanished luxuries beyond her own inability to recover them.

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Project defaultthey will never find them again

Project default · they will not find

Witnessesοὐ μὴ αὐτὰ εὑρήσουσιν — WH, Tregelles, NA28
Alternativeyou will never find them again

Alternate text · you will not find

Witnessesαὐτὰ οὐ μὴ εὕρῃς — Byzantine text

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