Mocking You
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I suspect "appalled" would be a better term for Revelation 17:6 KJV, and Revelation 17:6 NIV, capturing a more negative connotation as I gather in the theme of this verse in Revelation.
The fact is that the KJV uses the word, "admiration". That is an archaic word and 21st century readers would take that word at face value, i.e. "great respect and approval".
You may think appalled would be a better word to use here, but it is nowhere near the meaning of the Greek. If "appalled" was the word used in the text it would be a gross mis-translation of the Greek. We can't go around assigning meanings to the words of the Bible as we see fit. Neither should old out-dated meanings be left in there as if they were valid.