“Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod.Psalm 2:9 He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.”
— WEB
Revelation 19:15
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”
— KJV
“And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.”
— ASV
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Commentary
out of his mouth . . . sword-- (Rev 1:16; Rev 2:12, Rev 2:16). Here in its avenging power, Th2 2:8, "consume with the Spirit of His mouth" (Isa 11:4, to which there is allusion here); not in its convicting and converting efficacy (Eph 6:17; Heb 4:12-13, where also the judicial keenness of the sword-like word is included). The Father commits the judgment to the Son. he shall rule--The HE is emphatic, He and none other, in contrast to the usurpers who have misruled on earth. "Rule," literally, "tend as a shepherd"; but here in a punitive sense. He, who would have shepherded them with pastoral rod and with the golden scepter of His love, shall dash them in pieces, as refractory rebels, with "a rod of iron." treadeth . . . wine-press-- (Isa 63:3). of the fierceness and wrath--So ANDREAS reads. But A, B, Vulgate, Coptic, and ORIGEN read, "of the fierceness (or boiling indignation) of the wrath," omitting "and." Almighty--The fierceness of Christ's wrath against His foes will be executed with the resources of omnipotence.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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