Wahyu 17:7

17:7 But ¹  the angel said to me, “Why are you astounded? I will interpret ²  for you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.

Wahyu 17:3

17:3 So ³  he carried me away in the Spirit ⁴  to a wilderness, ⁵  and there ⁶  I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

² tn Grk “I will tell you,” but since what follows is the angel’s interpretation of the vision, “interpret for you” is the preferred translation here.

³ 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.

⁴ 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).

⁵ tn Or “desert.”

⁶ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.