Revelation 17:15 · World English Bible
Revelation 17:15 Meaning He Said to Me
He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
What does Revelation 17:15 mean?
Deep water is how the mind pictures what lies below waking thought, the shared ground beneath all separate people. Here the vision translates itself: the waters are the crowds, the nations, the many tongues.
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Deep water is how the mind pictures what lies below waking thought, the shared ground beneath all separate people. Here the vision translates itself: the waters are the crowds, the nations, the many tongues. Image and meaning arrive together, as they do in dreams.
A crowd moves like water. Each person, pulled into the mass, loses their own edges and begins to feel and move with everyone around them. Whatever sits upon that water, a ruling mood or a seductive cause, is held up entirely by the people beneath it, and sinks the moment they stop carrying it.
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Live Revelation 17:15 today
- Before you join a pile on in a group chat today, pause and ask whether this is your opinion or the room's. Then decide what to type.
- When a friend is swept up in outrage, do not match their heat and do not lecture them. Ask one calm question about what actually happened.
- At work, when a wave of panic or hype moves through the team, let it pass over you before you speak. Your steadiness will do more than your argument.
How much of what you felt strongly today was actually yours?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Tao Te Ching
What is high is held up by what is low. Remove the base and the throne has nothing to sit on.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Do not be carried along by the crowd's judgments. Most of what moves a multitude is only opinion repeating itself.
Buddhism
A mood spreads from mind to mind like a current. Knowing a feeling is borrowed is what keeps you from drowning in it.
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