Revelation 14:1

CHAPTER XIV.

The Lamb on mount Sion, and his company and their character,

1-5.

The angel flying in the midst of heaven, with the everlasting

Gospel, 6, 7.

Another angel proclaims the fall of Babylon, 8.

A third angel denounces God's judgments against those who

worship the beast or his image, 9-11.

The patience of the saints, and the blessedness of them who die

in the Lord, 12, 13.

The man on the white cloud, with a sickle, reaping the earth,

14-16.

The angel with the sickle commanded by another angel, who had

power over fire, to gather the clusters of the vines of the

earth, 17, 18.

They are gathered and thrown into the great winepress of God's

wrath, which is trodden without the city, and the blood comes

out 1600 furlongs, 19, 20.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV.

Verse Revelation 14:1. A Lamb stood on the mount Sion] This represents Jesus Christ in his sacrificial office; mount Sion was a type of the Christian Church.

And with him a hundred forty and four thousand] Representing those who were converted to Christianity from among the Jews. See Revelation 7:4.

His Father's name written in their foreheads.] They were professedly, openly, and practically, the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus. Different sects of idolaters have the peculiar mark of their god on their foreheads. This is practised in the east to the present day, and the mark is called the sectarial mark. Between eighty and ninety different figures are found on the foreheads of different Hindoo deities and their followers.

Almost every MS. of importance, as well as most of the versions and many of the fathers, read this clause thus: Having HIS NAME and his Father's name written upon their foreheads. This is undoubtedly the true reading, and is properly received by Griesbach into the text.