Matthew Poole Commentary - Revelation 14:19 - 14:19

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Revelation 14:19 - 14:19


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Dr. More thinks the sense of this is, that men were pressed in conscience upon the sharp conviction of Christ’s powerful ministers, with sorrow for their sins, and so felt the wrath of God in them. But Mr. Mede, with whom (as to the sense of this text) I rather agree, tells us, that the treading of the vintage, in parabolical Scripture, constantly signifies a cruel, bloody, and deadly slaughter; he thinks that it is the same slaughter mentioned Rev_19:19-21, as to which, Rev_14:15, much the same metaphor is used, he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath, of Almighty God.