Revelation 19:17

ἔνα. א cop[737] sah. arm[738] Haym. read ἄλλον. B2 omits ἔνα.

[737] Coptic.
[738] Armenian.

17. ἕνα ἄγγελον. Probably ἕνα is merely the indefinite article as in Revelation 8:13, though here it is possible to think of one angel standing apart from the heavenly armies who roll by.

ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ. Perhaps he is the Angel of the Sun (like the other elemental angels in Revelation 16:5 and perhaps Revelation 14:18): but the ἔνα makes this less likely. Probably he is stationed there only as in a position commanding the μεσουράνημα (on this word see on Revelation 8:13).

πᾶσιν τοῖς ὀρνέοις. Ezekiel 39:17 sqq., of the slaughter of Gog and Magog: from which however this slaughter seems to be distinguished, see Revelation 20:8-9.

δεῦτε, συνάχθητε. The imperative immediately after δεῦτε is found twice in St John 4:29; John 21:12; once in St Matthew 28:6, nowhere else in New Testament. δεῦτε in the Septuagint commonly represents a Hebrew verb, and it is not certain that δεῦρο� Matthew 19:21 and parallels is exactly similar.

τὸ δεῖπνον τὸ μέγα τοῦ θεοῦ. In Ezek. l.c. it is called a sacrifice, sacrifices being the only ordinary occasion for a feast of flesh: cf. Isaiah 34:6, which was probably in Ezekiel’s mind.