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The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
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A Picture of Final Judgment
Commentators explain that the image of a winepress producing a river of blood is not literal but a powerful, terrifying symbol. It draws on Old Testament imagery (like Isaiah 63) to depict the complete and final judgment of God's wrath against unrepentant sin. The red juice of the grapes vividly represents the utter overthrow of evil.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Was trodden (επατηθη). First aorist passive indicative of πατεω, to tread. The image of treading out the grapes is a familiar one …
19th Century
Anglican
And the angel . . .—The vine (that is, the vintage of the vine), when gathered, is cast into the winepress of the wrath of God…
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Baptist
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 an…
“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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the winepress was trodden without the city The beloved city, the new Jerusalem, into which none of the wicked wi…
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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…
