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# all the nations
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"the people of all the nations"
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# have drunk the wine of her immoral passion
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"have become sexually immoral like her" or "have become drunk like her in sexual sin"
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# her immoral passion
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Babylon is spoken of as if it were a prostitute who has caused other people to sin along with her. This may well have a double meaning: literal sexual immorality and also the worship of false gods.
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# merchants
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A merchant is a person who sells things.
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# from the power of her sensual way of living
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"because she spent so much money on sexual immorality"
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