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Revelation 18
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revelation.18.rev1823LampBride
φῶς λύχνου ... φαρμακείᾳ
TRANSLATIONmoderate confidence
Why do light and wedding voices cease?
Babylon's merchants were earth's great ones, and her sorcery deceived all nations; lamp and wedding celebration therefore vanish.
Why this default
The default preserves the loss of domestic light and communal celebration, then grounds it in Babylon’s commercial power and deceptive sorcery.
Evidence
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Project defaultNo lamp will shine or wedding voices sound in you again; your merchants ruled, your sorcery deceived the nations
Project default
AlternativeNo lamp will gleam or wedding voices sound again; your traders were magnates, your spells misled the nations
Alternate rendering
AlternativeNo lamp will shine and no wedding voices will sound again; your merchants were powerful, your sorcery deceived the nations
Retains both causal clauses: mercantile greatness and worldwide deception.
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