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I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,
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A Grim Feast of Victory
Commentators explain that the angel's call to the birds is a powerful, symbolic image borrowed from the Old Testament (Ezekiel 39). It graphically portrays the complete and certain overthrow of God's enemies. This 'great supper of God' is not a celebration for believers, but a gruesome feast for birds of prey, signifying the finality of Christ's victory over evil.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And I saw an angel standing in the sun. Evidently, this was a different angel from the one that had previously appeared to him. The nu…
An angel (ενα αγγελον). Like εις in 18:21, just "an," not "one."
Standing in the sun (εστωτα εν τω ηλιω). …
19th Century
Anglican
And He has on His vesture . . .—The King rides at the head of His army. On His robe, where it spreads out from the waist, His titl…
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Baptist
By this highly figurative language, we are to understand that, when Christ goes forth to war in battling for the truth, and his true followers come…
This section brings us to the anticipated confrontation between the beast and his soldiers and the Lamb (vv.17–21; cf. 16:12–16; 17:14). First, the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I saw an angel standing in the sun By whom is meant, not the angel of the fourth vial, who poured it on the sun,…
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