Revelation 19:17

an angel Lit. one angel.

in the sun Perhaps he is the Angel of the Sun (like the other elemental angels in Revelation 16:5 and perhaps Revelation 14:18): but the "one" makes this less likely. Probably he is stationed there only as a position commanding the "mid-heaven" (on this word See on Revelation 8:13).

to all the fowls 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.

the supper of the great God Read, the great supper of God. 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.