Was trodden (επατηθη). First aorist passive indicative of πατεω, to tread. The image of treading out the grapes is a familiar one …

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…

And the angel . . .—The vine (that is, the vintage of the vine), when gathered, is cast into the winepress of the wrath of God…

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God…

“Another” angel here has no more necessary connection with the Son of Man than “another” angel in v.15; it may simply mean another of the same kind…

And the winepress was trodden without the city
The beloved city, the new Jerusalem, into which none of the wicked wi…

When warnings and judgments fail to produce reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up. They then become ripe for judgment, which is repres…