Revelation 14:2,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 14:2

And I heard a voice from heaven ,.... The same with the voices heard in heaven upon the sounding of the seventh trumpet, Revelation 11:15 ; as the voice of many waters ; very loud, and uttered by a great multitude of people, signified by waters in this book, Revelation 17:15 ; the same with those that praise the Lord for the destruction of antichrist, and for the marriage of the Lamb, Revelation 19:1 ; and as the voice of a great thunder ; to which the Gospel may be compared... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:2

The voice of many waters - That is, of multitudes of various nations. The voice of harpers - Though the sounds were many and apparently confused, yet both harmony and melody were preserved. 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 14:2

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 14:2

And I heard a voice from heaven - Showing that the scene is laid in heaven, but that John in the vision was on the earth.As the voice of many waters - As the sound of the ocean, or of a mighty cataract. That is, it was so loud that it could be heard from heaven to earth. No comparison could express this more sublimely than to say that it was like the roar of the ocean.As the voice of a great thunder - As the loud sound of thunder.And I heard the voice of harpers - In heaven: the song of... read more

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:2

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 14:2

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