Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
An angel (ena aggelon). Like eiv in Revelation 18:21, just "an," not "one."
Standing in the sun (estwta en tw hliw). Second perfect active participle of isthmi (intransitive). "Where all the birds of prey would behold him" (Beckwith). For orneoiv (birds) see Revelation 18:2 and for en mesouranhmati (in mid heaven) see Revelation 18:13; Revelation 14:6.
Come and be gathered together (Deute sunaxqhte). Deute is the adverb deurw (hither), used when two or more are addressed, possibly from deuro ite (come here). Asyndeton also without kai (and). First aorist passive imperative of sunagw. The metaphor is drawn from Ezekiel 39:17.
Unto the great supper of God (eiv to deipnon to mega tou qeou). The habits of vultures are described by Christ in Matthew 24:28. This is a bold and powerful picture of the battlefield after the victory of the Messiah, "a sacrificial feast spread on God's table for all the vultures of the sky" (Swete). Is this battle the same as that of Har Magedon (Revelation 16:16) and that of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:8 ff.) mentioned after the thousand years? The language in Revelation 20:8 ff. seems like this derived from Ezekiel 39:17 ff., and "in the Apocalypse priority in the order of sequence does not always imply priority in time" (Swete). There seems no way to decide this point save that the end seems to be at hand.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 1:7
Revelation 4:7
Revelation 8:13
Revelation 12:14
Revelation 17:11
Revelation 18:2
Revelation 19:21
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