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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:11

The smoke of their torment - Still an allusion to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1

And I looked ; and I saw, indicating a fresh phase of the vision (cf. Revelation 4:1 , etc.). Having described ( Revelation 12:1-17 . and 13.) the trinity of enemies with which Christ and his people contend, the vision now passes on to depict the blessedness in store for the faithful Christian, and, on the other hand, the final fate of the dragon and his adherents. We are thus once more led to the final judgment. And just as in the former vision, after the assurance of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

Light gleams in the darkness. "Without fault!" The apostle in this book never keeps us too long in the shade without a break. Just as, after the terrible convulsions depicted in the sixth chapter, we had the glorious vision of the blest in heaven in that which followed, so it is here. We have watched the working of three of the foes of God and of his Church. Now we are bidden to turn our eye upward, and behold again the hundred and forty-four thousand whose blessedness had been already... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The perfect Church. How well it is for us, in forming our estimates and in regulating our conduct, to have set before us a true ideal and a faultless standard! To compare ourselves with ourselves, that is, with men like ourselves, is, so St. Paul tells us, not wise. And all experience proves the truth of his word. The low levels of ordinary religious life in the present day all result from our practically, not professedly, putting before ourselves standards which are faulty and inferior,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The triumphant host. Again amidst the threatenings of danger and trial, words of consolation and assurance mingle. And out of the midst of the contemplation of the most virulent opposition to the truth, the holy seer is called to lift up his eyes on high, and behold the Mount Zion and the host of the pure and faithful surrounding the Lamb. The hundred and forty-four thousand—the Church's symbol of twelve reproduced and multiplied. It is the Church in her triumph. "The elect" whom Satan... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The supersensuous heaven of humanity. "And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven," etc. May we not regard these verses as a pictorial representation of the supersensuous heaven of humanity? If so, the following facts are suggested concerning the unseen realm of the good or the Christly. I. IT IS A SCENE IN WHICH CHRIST IS ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:2

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder. Evidently the song of the heavenly inhabitants, as described also in Revelation 7:9-11 , where we are told they "cried with a loud voice." The greatness of the voice is evidence of the vastness of the number. "Heaven," from which the sounds come, includes the "Mount Zion" of Revelation 7:1 , on which the Lamb and his followers stand. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:3

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders. They sing; that is to say, the heavenly inhabitants. The four living beings; viz. those of Revelation 4:9 , where see an explanation of the positions occupied, and of the nature and signification of the "living beings and the elders." The "new song," which can only be understood by the hundred and forty-four thousand, is (as explained by Revelation 4:4 ) a song of victory won by those... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:3

Man training for the supersensuous heaven. "No man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth." The subject of these words is man training for the supersensuous heaven. Notice— I. HEAVEN REQUIRES HIS TRAINING . "No man could learn that song." Man cannot blend in the happy harmony of the celestial state without previous training. Analogy would suggest this. In the physical system every being is fitted to his... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:4

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. There is little doubt that these words are intended in a spiritual sense. In the Old Testament the employment of the figure of adultery and fornication to denote spiritual unfaithfulness is common (cf. 2 Chronicles 21:11 ; Jeremiah 3:9 , etc.). St. John elsewhere in the Apocalypse makes use of the same symbolism (cf. Revelation 2:20 ," That woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 14:4

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