Revelation 14 — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 14
The Lamb on Zion
Verse 14:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw, and look, the Lamb standing upon Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred forty-four thousand having His name and His Father’s name written upon their foreheads.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Both His name and His Father’s name are present on the foreheads.
Reception: R081 (John Bunyan; scope 3:4,4:4,7:17,14:1–5,21:4).
Verse 14:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of great thunder; and the voice I heard was like lyre players playing on their lyres.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Waters, thunder and lyre playing are successive sound comparisons. The source does not identify the heavenly voice simply as an instrumental orchestra.
Reception: R081 (John Bunyan; scope 3:4,4:4,7:17,14:1–5,21:4).
Verse 14:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they sing something like a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousand purchased from the earth.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Something like retains the source's hōs before new song. The exclusive learners are the hundred forty-four thousand purchased from the earth.
Reception: R081 (John Bunyan; scope 3:4,4:4,7:17,14:1–5,21:4).
Verse 14:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones following the Lamb wherever He goes. These were purchased from among people as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The virginity and defilement language is preserved within the vision. The verse is not expanded into a general statement that women or marriage are inherently impure; literal and symbolic interpretations remain distinct from translation.
Reception: R081 (John Bunyan; scope 3:4,4:4,7:17,14:1–5,21:4).
Verse 14:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and no lie was found in their mouth; they are unblemished.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The clause has no added before the throne of God after unblemished.
Reception: R081 (John Bunyan; scope 3:4,4:4,7:17,14:1–5,21:4).
Three angelic proclamations
Verse 14:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having eternal good news to proclaim to those seated upon the earth and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Eternal good news is entrusted to an angel for worldwide proclamation. Those seated upon the earth translates the actual participle rather than replacing it with the more usual dwelling formula.
Reception: R059 (Victorinus tradition; scope 14:6,14:8).
Verse 14:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
saying in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come, and worship the One who made heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Fear, give glory and worship are three commands grounded in judgment's arrival. The Creator's works include water springs as well as heaven, earth and sea.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink from the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Fury renders thymos consistently with 14:10; passion is another contextual sense in relation to sexual immorality. Babylon remains the stated visionary name.
Reception: R059 (Victorinus tradition; scope 14:6,14:8).
Verse 14:9
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The third angel's conditional warning joins worship and receiving the mark. Forehead or hand is stated without repeating right from 13:16.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:10
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
he too will drink from the wine of God’s fury, prepared unmixed in the cup of His wrath, and will be tormented in fire and sulfur before holy angels and before the Lamb.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Prepared unmixed renders the striking combination kekerasmenou akratou, literally mixed unmixed. The paradox is acknowledged rather than treating the two words as identical.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:11
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the smoke of their torment goes up for ages of ages, and they have no rest day and night, those worshiping the beast and its image, and anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The smoke rises for ages of ages, and the worshipers have no rest day or night. The translation retains both clauses without settling every later account of final punishment.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:12
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Here is the endurance of the saints, those keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Faith of Jesus preserves the genitive; faith in Jesus and Jesus’ faithfulness are interpretive alternatives.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:13
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: From now on modifies the blessed announcement concerning those dying in the Lord. Rest concerns their labors, while their works accompany them.
Reception: R075 (Augustine; scope 14:13).
The harvest of the earth
Verse 14:14
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw, and look, a white cloud, and upon the cloud One sitting like a son of man, having upon His head a golden crown and in His hand a sharp sickle.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The son-of-man figure is understood as Christ in this rendering and divine pronouns are capitalized; the verse itself uses the comparison without a proper name.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:15
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to the One sitting upon the cloud, “Send Your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth has dried.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Has dried preserves exēranthē in the grain-harvest image, indicating readiness to reap.
Reception: R060 (Victorinus tradition; scope 14:15,14:19–20).
Verse 14:16
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the One sitting upon the cloud cast His sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The cloud-seated figure casts the sickle and the earth is reaped. The harvest's interpretation is not replaced by an explicit gathering or killing of named people.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:17
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, himself also having a sharp sickle.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: A different angel also bears a sharp sickle, marking the transition from grain harvest to the following grape harvest.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 14:18
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And another angel came from the altar, the one having authority over the fire, and called with a loud voice to the one having the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because its grapes have ripened.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The altar angel has authority over fire and commands the sickle-bearing angel. Ripe grapes explain why the vine's clusters are gathered.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Textual [G]: NA28 reads ἄγγελος [ἐξῆλθεν] ἐκ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου in brackets (SBLGNT has no verb); the "came" in the rendering above answers to NA28's bracketed ἐξῆλθεν, and SBLGNT would read "And another angel, from the altar, the one having authority over the fire, called …".
Verse 14:19
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the angel cast his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of God’s fury.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The angel gathers the earth's vine and casts it into God's great winepress. Fury remains thymos, consistent with the adjoining judgment imagery.
Reception: R060 (Victorinus tradition; scope 14:15,14:19–20).
Verse 14:20
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as far as the horses’ bridles, for a thousand six hundred stadia.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Stadia retains the ancient distance unit. The blood and bridles belong to the vision; no modern battle is supplied.
Reception: R060 (Victorinus tradition; scope 14:15,14:19–20).