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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 14:4 - 14:4
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virgins - spiritually (Mat 25:1); in contrast to the apostate Church, Babylon (Rev 14:8), spiritually “a harlot” (Rev 17:1-5; Isa 1:21; contrast 2Co 11:2; Eph 5:25-27). Their not being defiled with women means they were not led astray from Christian faithfulness by the tempters who jointly constitute the spiritual “harlot.”
follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth - in glory, being especially near His person; the fitting reward of their following Him so fully on earth.
redeemed - “purchased.”
being the - rather, “as a first-fruit.” Not merely a “first-fruit” in the sense in which all believers are so, but Israel’s 144,000 elect are the first-fruit, the Jewish and Gentile elect Church is the harvest; in a further sense, the whole of the transfigured and translated Church which reigns with Christ at His coming, is the first-fruit, and the consequent general ingathering of Israel and the nations, ending in the last judgment, is the full and final harvest.