Revelation 14:20 BSB

Revelation 14:20

And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

BSB

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ASV

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

KJV

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 and six hundred furlongs.

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Commentary

4 voices

Victorinus of Pettau

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (304)

"And the angel thrust in the sickle, and reaped the vine of the earth, and cast it into the wine-press of the wrath of God. And the wine-press of His fury was trodden down without the city." In that he says that it was cast into the wine-press of the wrath of God, and trodden down without the city, the treading of the wine-press is the retribution on the sinner. "And blood went out from the wine-press, even unto the horse-bridles." The vengeance of shed blood as was before predicted, "In blood thou hast sinned, and blood shall follow thee."

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The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

Commentary on Revelation (735)

For a distance of sixteen hundred stadia. That is, through all four parts of the world. For fourfoldness is compounded four times, as in the four-faced quadriform and wheels. Four times four hundred is sixteen hundred. Tyconius interprets the reaper and the grape gatherer as …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And the winepress was trodden without the city,.... The beloved city, the new Jerusalem, into which none of the wicked will enter, and without which are dogs, &c. Rev 20:

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Without the city - Jerusalem. They to whom St. John writes, when a man said, "The city," immediately understood this. And blood came out of the winepress, even to the horses' bridles - So deep at its first flowing from the winepress!

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Even unto the horse bridles - A hyperbolical expression, to denote a great effusion of blood. The Jews said, “When Hadrian besieged the city called Bitter, he slew so many that the horses waded in blood up to their mouths.” The same kind of hyperbole with that above. See Wetstein on this verse. The space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs - It is said that the state of the Church, or St. Peter’s patrimony, extends from Rome to the Po, two hundred Italian miles, which make exactly one thousand six hundred furlongs!

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐπατήθη	epatēthē	was trodden	G3961 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ληνὸς	lēnos	winepress	G3025 →
ἔξωθεν	exōthen	outside	G1855 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
πόλεως,	poleōs	city,	G4172 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξῆλθεν	exēlthen	flowed	G1831 →
αἷμα	haima	blood	G129 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ληνοῦ	lēnou	winepress	G3025 →
ἄχρι	achri	as high as	G891 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
χαλινῶν	chalinōn	bridles	G5469 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἵππων	ippōn	horses	G2462 →
ἀπὸ	apo	to the distance of	G575 →
σταδίων	stadiōn	stadia	G4712 →
χιλίων	chiliōn	one thousand	G5507 →
ἑξακοσίων.¶	hexakosiōn	six hundred.	G1812 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 11:8
Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
leads to
- Jeremiah 23:14
  And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness.…
- Revelation 18:10
  In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- Ezekiel 16:53–55
  But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.
- Hebrews 13:12
  And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- Revelation 18:21
  Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never…
Through
Lamentations 1:15
The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin…
leads to
- Isaiah 63:3
  “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and…
- Malachi 4:3
  Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 28:18
  Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Revelation