Revelation 14:4 NIV

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 14:4

14:4a These are they who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. We take this half verse by itself, for it is one of the most difficult sayings in the whole of the Revelation, and it is of the utmost importance to get its meaning clear. It describes the unsullied purity of those who are in the company of the Lamb, but in what does that purity consist? (i) Does it describe those who in sexual relationships have been pure? That can hardly be the case, for the people... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 14:4

14:4b-5 These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were bought from amongst men, a sacrifice to God and to the Lamb, and no falsehood was found in their mouth, for they are without blemish. The company of the Lamb are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. The simplest definition of a Christian is simply one who follows Jesus Christ. "Follow me!" Jesus said to Philip ( John 1:43 ), and to Matthew ( Mark 2:14 ). "Follow me!" he said to the rich young ruler ( Mark... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:4

These are they which were not defiled with women ,.... With the whore of Rome, and her harlots, she is the mother of; while the kings and inhabitants of the earth were drunk with the wine of their fornication, or committed idolatry with them, which is spiritual fornication, and is here meant by being defiled with them, these were free from such pollutions, or idolatrous practices: for they are virgins ; for their beauty and comeliness in Christ, chastity, sincerity of their love,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:4

These are they which were not defiled with women - They are pure from idolatry, and are presented as unspotted virgins to their Lord and Savior Christ. See 2 Corinthians 11:2 . There may be an allusion here to the Israelites committing idolatry, through the means of their criminal connection with the Midianitish women. See Numbers 25:1-4 ; Numbers 31:16 . Follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth - They go through good and through evil report, bear his reproach, and love not their... 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 14:4

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

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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 14:4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 14:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:4

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 14:4

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