Revelation 14:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 14:1-5

Here we have one of the most pleasing sights that can be viewed in this world?the Lord Jesus Christ at the head of his faithful adherents and attendants. Here observe, 1. How Christ appears: as a Lamb standing upon mount Zion. Mount Zion is the gospel church. Christ is with his church and in the midst of her in all her troubles, and therefore she is not consumed. It is his presence that secures her perseverance; he appears as a Lamb, a true Lamb, the Lamb of God. A counterfeit lamb is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 14:2-3

14:2-3 And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the voice of great thunder, and the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps. And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased for God from the earth. This passage begins with a wonderful description of the voice of God.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:3

And they sung as it were a new song ,.... The song of redeeming grace; the same with that in Revelation 5:9 ; see the note there: this is to be understood of the 144,000, who sung it before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders ; that is, publicly in the church, the ministers and members being present; of these; See Gill on Revelation 4:4 ; See Gill on Revelation 4:6 ; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:3

They sung - a new song - See on Revelation 5:9 ; (note). No man could learn that song - As none but genuine Christians can worship God acceptably, because they approach him through the only Mediator, so none can understand the deep things of God but such; nor can others know the cause why true believers exult so much in God through Christ, because they know not the communion which such hold with the Father and the Son through the Holy Ghost. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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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