Read & Study the Bible Online - Bible Portal
Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:19

The great winepress of the wrath of God - The place or kingdom where God executes his judgments on the workers of iniquity, whether pagans or persecuting Christians; Rome pagan, or Rome papal. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

Harvest time. Any attempt to interpret the visions of this book as if they followed each other chronologically only, will inevitably fail. Sometimes, at any rate, the visions are such that they overleap the near future and glance forward to one far more remote. In fact, speaking generally, the order of them is far more moral than it is temporal, following not so much the order of years as the evolution of principles and the growth of souls. It certainly is so in the paragraph before us, in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

The harvest and the vintage. It is held by many that both these refer to the same fact of God's judgment against sin and sinners. And no doubt, at times, the "harvest," does mean such judgment (cf. Joel 3:13 ; Jeremiah 51:33 ). In Matthew 13:1-58 . both harvests—that of good and evil alike—are told of "Let both grow together until," etc. Still more commonly the figure stands for the people of God and their ingathering into his blessed presence. And we think that here, whilst there... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

Judgment again represented. In the spirit of the former words, and as a further confirmation of them, the process of judgment is again set forth under fresh images. So is consolation borne to the suffering and afflicted Church, and warning and admonition dealt out to the ungodly. Under the imagery of a harvest and of the gathering of the vintage, the certainties of the threatened judgment and the promised blessedness are set forth. The afflicted, down trodden, despised Church must here see... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

The moral seasons of humanity. "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud One sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle," etc. There are three moral seasons implied in this section of the Apocalyptic vision. I. THE RIPENING SEASON . "And I looked [saw], and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud One sat like unto the [a] Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:15

A nd another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud; another angel; in addition to those already mentioned, not implying that he who sat on the cloud was an angel. Out of the temple, or shrine ( ναός ); the inner sanctuary of God (cf. Revelation 7:15 ). The angel acts as the messenger of the will of God to Christ in his capacity of Son of man, because the command is one concerning the times and seasons which the Father hath kept in his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:16

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. "Cast his sickle;" not the same verb as that in Revelation 14:15 , but which, nevertheless, has the same signification (cf. the use of this verb in John 20:25 , John 20:27 ). There are two gatherings described in this place: On the whole, it seems probable that the first refers to the selection by Christ of the faithful at the end of the world, while the secured describes the ingathering of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:17

And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle; from the shrine, or sanctuary (as before, see on Revelation 14:15 ), the dwelling place of the undivided Trinity, from whence come God's judgments (Alford; cf. Revelation 11:19 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:18

And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire. Both in Revelation 6:9 and Revelation 8:3 the altar is connected with judgment. The angel here described is he who is referred to in those places, the fire being the fire of the altar, the fire of judgment ( Revelation 8:3 ), or, less probably; the angel who has power over fire generally (as Revelation 7:1 ; Revelation 16:5 ). And cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying. Again the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:19

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth. This angel is described in quite a different manner from "him who sat on the cloud" ( Revelation 14:16 ). And cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God; into the wine press, the great [winepress], etc. The feminine substantive has agreeing with it a masculine adjective. It is doubtful whether we ought to see in this anything more than a mere slip of grammar. Possibly the word is of either... read more

Group of Brands