Revelation 19:7

The Marriage of the Lamb, Revelation 19:7-9

7. honour Better, the glory.

the marriage of the Lamb The first suggestion of this image in the N. T. is in our Lord's parables, St Matthew 22:2; Matthew 25:1-10: it is more fully worked out by St Paul, Ephesians 5:22-32. But men's minds were prepared for it by the language of all the Prophets about the spiritual marriage of the Lord and Israel: still more, perhaps, by that of the 45th Psalm, rising so far above the royal marriage that no doubt furnished its occasion. And there is little doubt that the Song of Songs was already mystically interpreted among the Jews, though its claim to a place in the Canon was still disputed.

his wife Called by St John the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:2, by St Paul both by that name, Galatians 4:26, and more simply the Church, Ephesians 5:23 sqq.