Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
out of his mouth . . . sword-- (Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12, Revelation 2:16). Here in its avenging power, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, "consume with the Spirit of His mouth" (Isaiah 11:4, to which there is allusion here); not in its convicting and converting efficacy (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12-13, where also the judicial keenness of the sword-like word is included). The Father commits the judgment to the Son.
he shall rule--The HE is emphatic, He and none other, in contrast to the usurpers who have misruled on earth. "Rule," literally, "tend as a shepherd"; but here in a punitive sense. He, who would have shepherded them with pastoral rod and with the golden scepter of His love, shall dash them in pieces, as refractory rebels, with "a rod of iron."
treadeth . . . wine-press-- (Isaiah 63:3).
of the fierceness and wrath--So ANDREAS reads. But A, B, Vulgate, Coptic, and ORIGEN read, "of the fierceness (or boiling indignation) of the wrath," omitting "and."
Almighty--The fierceness of Christ's wrath against His foes will be executed with the resources of omnipotence.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 45:3-4
Isaiah 11:4
Isaiah 11:4
Isaiah 41:2
Isaiah 42:3
Isaiah 45:14
Isaiah 49:2
Isaiah 59:17
Isaiah 63:2
Isaiah 63:2
Lamentations 1:15
Ezekiel 1:26
Ezekiel 21:11
Ezekiel 26:7
Daniel 7:9
Daniel 7:13
Malachi 4:3
Ephesians 6:17
1 Thessalonians 4:16
2 Thessalonians 2:8
Hebrews 4:12
Revelation 12:7
Revelation 14:14
Revelation 14:19
Revelation 15:1
Revelation 19:13
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