Revelation 19:17

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And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in midheaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

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Bede

AD 735

Come: Come, he says, ye who hunger and thirst after righteousness, to the banquet of the kingdom to come, when, the fierceness of the proud repressed, ye shall be satisfied with the light of divine justice. <a

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Bede

AD 735

sun: That is, preaching in the Church, which shines more brightly, and thunders forth the more freely, the more it is oppressed.

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Bede

AD 735

birds: He calls the saints birds, as passing their life in heaven. For "wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together;" and as bringing them together into one body, he had said, "flying in the midst of heaven."

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

An Angel.in the sun. With a loud voice invites all the birds of the air to a most plentiful entertainment which is preparing for them, where they may fill themselves with human flesh of all kinds; from that of kings to that of bondmen; (ver. 18) and with the flesh of horses and that of them that sin on them: an expressive picture of the immense slaughter that is going to be made. It would seem that this bloody scene will terminate in the evening of the day, as the invitation is given to a supper. (Pastorini)

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