Revelation 14:20

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. WITHOUT THE CITY - Jerusalem. The scene of blood-shedding of Christ and His people shall be also the scene of God's vengeance on the anti-Christian foe (). BLOOD - the red wine. The slaughter of apostates is here meant, not their eternal punishment. EVEN UNTO THE HORSE-BRIDLES - of the avenging "armies of heaven" (; ). BY THE SPACE OF A THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED FURLONGS - `1,600 furlongs off' (W. Kelly). 1,600-a square number: 4 by 4...

14-20 Warnings and judgments not having produced reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up, and they become ripe for judgments, represented by a harvest, an emblem which is used to signify the gathering of the righteous, when ripe for heaven, by the mercy of God. The harvest time is when the corn is ripe; when the believers are ripe for heaven, then the wheat of the earth shall be gathered into Christ's garner. And by a vintage. The enemies of Christ and his church are not destroyed, till by their sin they are ripe for ruin, and then he will spare them no longer. The wine-press is the wrath of God, some terrible calamity, probably the sword, shedding the blood of the wicked. The patience of God towards sinners, is the greatest miracle in the world; but, though lasting, it will not be everlasting; and ripeness in sin is a sure proof of judgment at hand....

Verse Revelation 14:20. _EVEN UNTO THE HORSE BRIDLES_] A hyperbolical expression, to denote a _great effusion of blood_. The Jews said, "When Hadrian besieged the city called Bitter, he slew so many that the horses waded in blood up to their mouths." The same kind of hyperbole with that above. See Wetstein on this verse. _THE SPACE OF A THOUSAND_ AND _SIX HUNDRED FURLONGS__._] It is said that the _state of the Church_, or St. Peter's patrimony, extends from Rome to the Po, _two hundred Italian miles_, which make exactly _one thousand six hundred furlongs_! If this be really so, the coincidence is certainly surprising, and worthy of deep regard. On these two last verses pious Quesnel thus speaks: "As the favourable sickle of Jesus Christ reaps his wheat when ripe for heaven, so that of the

AND THE WINE-PRESS WAS TRODDEN WITHOUT THE CITY - The representation was made as if it were outside of the city - that is, the city of Jerusalem, for that is represented as the abode of the holy. The word “trodden” refers to the manner in which wine was usually prepared, by being trodden by the feet of people. See the notes on Isaiah 63:2. The wine-press was usually in the vineyard - not in the city - and this is the representation here. As appearing to the eye of John, it was not within the walls of any city, but standing without. AND BLOOD CAME OUT OF THE WINE-PRESS - The representation is, that there would be a great destruction which would be well represented by the juice flowing from a wine-press. EVEN UNTO THE HORSE BRIDLES - Deep, as blood would be in a field of slaughter

EXPOSITION REVELATION 14:1 AND I LOOKED; _and I saw, _indicating a fresh phase of the vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). Having described (Revelation 12:1. and 13.) the trinity of enemies with which Christ and his people contend, the vision now passes on to depict the blessedness in store for the faithful Christian, and, on the other hand, the final fate of the dragon and his adherents. We are thus once more led to the final judgment. And just as in the former vision, after the assurance of the salvation of the faithful (Revelation 7:1.), came the denuncia

AND THE WINEPRESS WAS TRODDEN WITHOUT THE CITY,.... The beloved city, the new Jerusalem, into which none of the wicked will enter, and without which are dogs, c. Revelation 20:9. The allusion may be, as Dr. Lightfoot thinks, to the olive presses, which were without the city of Jerusalem, from whence Gethsemane had its name, whither our Lord went, and where his sorrows began the night he was betrayed: hell is sometimes expressed by outer darkness, and said to be far off from heaven, and between the one and the other a great gulf is fixed, the distance is considerable hence men are said to go forth to behold the miseries of the wicked; see Matthew 22:13. AND BLOOD CAME OUT OF THE WINEPRESS; alluding to the juice squeezed out of grapes, called the blood of grapes,...

Revelation 14:1. _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 on their foreheads._ The great question for us is, shall we be among the number? If we have the Father's name engraved upon our hearts, we may conclude that we shall, one day, have it written in our foreheads, and that we shall be amongst that chosen company. Revelation 14:2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were r

REVELATION 14:20 cili,wn e`xakosi,wn Instead of 1600 stadia, a reading well supported by ac A C P 046 most minuscules, versions, and patristic references, several inferior witnesses read 1606 stadia (cili,wn e`xakosi,wn e[x, 1876 2014 2036 2037 2042 2043 2046 2047 2074 2082 Andrewa); a few other witnesses read 1200 stadia (cili,wn diakosi,wn, a* 203 506 syrph), probably because this numeral lends itself better to symbolic interpretation. One Old Latin manuscript (itgig) reads _mille quingentis_ (“1500”), and cili,wn has been accidentally omitted in 2065 and by the first hand of codex Amiatinus....

CHAPTER 14 Grace ancient _ 1. The Lamb and the 144,000 (Revelation 14:1)_ 2. The everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6) 3. Fall of Babylon anticipated (Revelation 14:8) 4. Wrath for the worshippers of the beast (Revelation 14:9) 5. The blessed dead (Revelation 14:12) 6. The harvest and the vintage (Revelation 14:14)...

THE HARVEST AND THE VINTAGE OF THE WORLD. The scene culminates in a vision of the Parousia, and an ingathering of the spiritual harvest. REVELATION 14:14. The coming of the Son of Man on the clouds, which was first suggested by a misinterpretation of Daniel 7:13, is one of the most familiar ideas in Christian eschatology (_cf._ Mark 14:62; Matthew 24:30). LIKE UNTO A SON OF MAN: Daniel 7:13 *. The phrase originally denoted the advent of a new kingdom with human qualities and characteristics in contrast to earlier empires, which