Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 18:4

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people , that ye be not partakers of her sins , and that ye receive not of her plagues :

A Command from God.

They are the words of God by his Prophet, Jer. 50.8. and 51.6. calling to his People, that the years of their Captivity being now expired, and they having a Liberty to go back to Hierusalem, they would not linger longer in Babylon,

nor partake of her Sins;

[illegible: 1 letter]or God was about to destroy that place; and if they were found in it, they would be in danger of being destroyed with it, especially if they were found Partakers of its Sins. But they are also a general Warning to all to take heed of any Fellowship with Idolaters; and so the Apostle applieth part of these words, 2 Cor. 6.17. Here they are applied to mystical Babylon, which is Rome Antichristian. God calls to all that either love him, or their own Souls, to forsake the Communion of it; for while they continue in it, they must partake of its Sins, worshipping the Beast, by paying, at his Command, a Divine Homage to Saints and Angels, to the Virgin Mary, to Images and Statues; nay, to piece of Bakers-Bread; and doing so, they will be involved in her Plagues. This Text looks terribly upon those who apostatize to that Idolatry; and instead of coming out (in obedience to the Command of God) being come out, go in again, and that not by Compulsion, but out of choice, and voluntarily.

Marginal references: Isa. 48.20. & 52.11.