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Revelation 14:1

The Pulpit Commentary on Revelation 14:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And I looked; and I saw, indicating a fresh phase of the vision (cf. , etc.). Having described (. 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 (.), came the denunciation of woe for the ungodly (Rev 8-11:14), leading once more to a picture of the saved (), so here we have the assured blessedness of the faithful portrayed (), followed by the judgments upon the ungodly ( - ), and leading on once more to a picture of the saints in glory (.

). And, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion; and behold, the Lamb standing on the Mount Zion, as in the Revised Version. "The Lamb," with the article, referring to "the Lamb" described in .

, whom the second beast had attempted to personate. He stands on Mount Zion (cf. , "Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem").

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