Revelation 19:13
in Revelation 19He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
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ASV
And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
KJV
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
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This verse in Revelation 19
Commentary
14 notes on this verseJohn does not see the Word of God mounted on a horse naked. He is clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood, since the Word who became flesh, and died because he became flesh, is invested with traces of that passion, since his blood also was poured forth upon the earth when the soldier pierced his side. For perhaps, even if in some way we attain the most sublime and highest contemplation of the Word and of the truth, we shall not forget completely that we were introduced to him by his coming in our body.
This site's exposition
called Faithful and True
on Revelation 19:11-13
Heaven stands open as at 4:1; the rider is called Faithful and True. His eyes like blazing fire recall 1:14, and many royal crowns answer the crowned heads of the dragon and beast in chapters 12 and 13. His name is The Word of God, as in John 1:1.
This site's exposition
a robe dipped in blood
Origen reads the blood as the Word's own, the marks of the passion He still bears from the cross. John Wesley and John Gill read it as the blood of His enemies, and Gill notes that the robe is stained before the battle begins. The victory is certain.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
A commentator
Primasius of HadrumetumCOMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 19:13 · Written before 560.
proposed
If no one is allowed to know his name, why is he now openly called the "Word of God"? When we read, "No one has ascended into heaven, but he who has descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven," we are …
He says he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood; for in the vision the Lord also bore the symbols of the Passion and showed the all-holy body stained only with his precious blood. And his name is called the Word of God. Do …
The Medieval Church3 voices
And his name is called the Word of God. Because he who appeared as a man to suffer for a time was in the beginning with God (John 1). He is called the Word because there is nothing visible or corporeal in the substance of …
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood. The robe of Christ should be understood according to the context. Here, it seems to indicate the very work of the passion, so that on the white horse signifies the incorruptible birth, and in the blood-stained …
A commentator
BonaventureCollations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 3 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
For unless you understand the order and origin of restoration, you cannot understand Scriptures. Now, in the Apocalypse the name of the Restorer is the Word of God: "And He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood, and His name is called the Word …
6 more voices on this verse
The Medieval Church1 voice
How is it that he who is without name and is unknown to all is here named "Word"? This is either to demonstrate his filial personhood and his impassible generation from the Father, just as our speech comes from our minds [impassibly], or his name …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood,.... Either in his own, by which he became the Saviour of his church and people; or else in the blood of his saints, he now comes to avenge; or rather in the blood of his enemies, with which he appears as stained, before the battle is fought, the victory being sure, and their slaughter unavoidable: the metaphor is taken from persons treading in a winepress, whose garments are stained with blood of grapes; see Rev 19:
And he is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood - The blood of the enemies he hath already conquered.
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood - Red, as if dipped in blood - emblem of slaughter. The original of this image is probably Isa 63:2-3. See the notes on that passage. And his name is called The Word of God - The name which in Rev 19:12, it is said that no one knew but he himself. This name is Ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ Ho logos tou Theou, or “the Logos of God.” That is, this is his unique name; a name which belongs only to him, and which distinguishes him from all other beings.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
vesture dipped in blood-- Isa 63:2 is alluded to here, and in Re 19:15, end. There the blood is not His own, but that of His foes. So here the blood on His "vesture," reminding us of His own blood shed for even the ungodly who trample on it, is a premonition of the shedding of their blood in righteous retribution.
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He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood - To show that he was just come from recent slaughter. The description is taken from Isa 63:2, Isa 63:3, where Judas Maccabeus, or some other conqueror, is described. The Word of God - Written in the Targum, and in other Jewish writings, מימרא דיי meimera daiya, “the word of Jehovah;” by which they always mean a person, and not a word spoken. See the notes on Joh 1:1, etc.
The words behind it
14 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| περιβεβλημένος | peribeblemenos | having clothed themselves with | G4016 → | 23 times |
| ἱμάτιον | himation | a garment | G2440 → | 60 times |
| βεβαμμένον | bebammenon | dipped | G911 → | |
| αἵματι, | aimati | in blood, | G129 → | 97 times |
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| κέκληται | kekletai | has been called | G2564 → | 147 times |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ὄνομα | onoma | name | G3686 → | 227 times |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | of Him | G846 → | 5565 times |
| ὁ | ho | The | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| λόγος | logos | Word | G3056 → | 329 times |
| τοῦ | tou | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| θεοῦ. | theou | of God. | G2316 → | 1312 times |
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
περιβεβλημένοςhaving clothed themselves with
peribeblemenosG4016 →23 times
ἱμάτιονa garment
himationG2440 →60 times
βεβαμμένονdipped
bebammenonG911 →
αἵματι,in blood,
aimatiG129 →97 times
καὶAnd
kaiG2532 →9120 times
κέκληταιhas been called
kekletaiG2564 →147 times
τὸthe
toG3588 →19766 times
ὄνομαname
onomaG3686 →227 times
αὐτοῦof Him
autouG846 →5565 times
ὁThe
hoG3588 →19766 times
λόγοςWord
logosG3056 →329 times
τοῦ<the>
touG3588 →19766 times
θεοῦ.of God.
theouG2316 →1312 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
it leads to
- Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
- Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
- John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- 1 John 1:1–2
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
- Genesis 1:1
Through
John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
it leads to
- 1 John 4:9
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- 1 Timothy 3:16
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world,…
- Galatians 4:4
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- 1 John 4:9
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Andreas of Caesarea, COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 19:13; Bede, Commentary on Revelation; Bonaventure, Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 3; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament; Oecumenius, Commentary on Revelation; Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.61 and Primasius of Hadrumetum, COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 19:13.