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Young's Literal Translation

Revelation 14:17

And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that [is] in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sickle;   Temple;   Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Harvest;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Fruit;   Harvest ;   Sickle ;   Tares ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Harvest;   Temple, the;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Retribution;   Revelation of John:;   Sickle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then another angel who also had a sharp sickle came out of the temple in heaven.
King James Version (1611)
And another Angel came out of the Temple which is in heauen, he also hauing a sharpe sickle.
King James Version
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New American Standard Bible
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
New Century Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
THE MESSAGE
Then another Angel came out of the Temple in Heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. Yet another Angel, the one in charge of tending the fire, came from the Altar. He thundered to the Angel who held the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle. Harvest earth's vineyard. The grapes are bursting with ripeness."
English Standard Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
Berean Standard Bible
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Contemporary English Version
Another angel with a sharp sickle then came out of the temple in heaven.
Complete Jewish Bible
Another angel came out of the Temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Darby Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which [is] in the heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. This angel also had a sharp sickle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then an other Angel came out of the Temple, which is in heauen, hauing also a sharpe sickle.
George Lamsa Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven; and he also had a sharp sickle.
Good News Translation
Then I saw another angel come out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
Lexham English Bible
And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven; he also had a sharp sickle.
Literal Translation
And another angel went forth out of the temple in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Amplified Bible
Then another angel came out of the temple (sanctuary) in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
American Standard Version
And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Bible in Basic English
And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade.
Hebrew Names Version
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
International Standard Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. He, too, had a sharp sickle.
Etheridge Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, having also a sharp sickle.
Murdock Translation
And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven, having also a sharp sickle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen, hauyng also a sharpe sickle.
English Revised Version
And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
World English Bible
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven; and he also had a sharp sickle.
Weymouth's New Testament
And another angel came out from the sanctuary in Heaven, and he too carried a sharp sickle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And another aungel wente out of the temple, that is in heuene, and he also hadde a scharp sikile.
Update Bible Version
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Webster's Bible Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New English Translation
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
New King James Version
Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New Living Translation
After that, another angel came from the Temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
New Life Bible
Then another angel came out from the house of God in heaven. He had a sharp knife for cutting grain also.
New Revised Standard
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, another messenger, came forth out of the sanctuary that is in heaven, - he also, having a sharp sickle.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revised Standard Version
And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And another angell came oute of the temple which is in heven havynge also a sharpe sycle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And another angell came out of the temple, which is in heauen, hauinge also a sharpe sykle.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then another angel appeared with his own sharp sickle.

Contextual Overview

13 And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!' 14 And I saw, and lo, a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sitting like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle; 15 and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, `Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;' 16 and he who is sitting upon the cloud did put forth his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that [is] in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle, 18 and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;' 19 and the messenger did put forth his sickle to the earth, and did gather the vine of the earth, and did cast [it] to the great wine-press of the wrath of God; 20 and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press -- unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Revelation 14:14, Revelation 14:15, Revelation 14:18, Revelation 15:5, Revelation 15:6, Revelation 16:1

Reciprocal: Joel 3:13 - for the press Revelation 16:17 - there Revelation 19:15 - and he treadeth

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, in David's returning from smiting the Philistine, that the women come out from all the cities of Israel to sing -- also the dancers -- to meet Saul the king, with tabrets, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments;
2 Samuel 18:18
And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king's valley, for he said, `I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called `The monument of Absalom' unto this day.
Proverbs 14:20
Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich [are] many.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,.... It is a strange conceit of Mr. Brightman's, that this angel is Thomas Lord Cromwell, in the days of King Henry the Eighth, a sincere favourer of pure religion; and that the following angel is Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, a martyr, that had power over fire; and that the vintage, here spoken of, refers to the destroying of religious houses, and disposing of abbey lands to other uses; which was done under the king's authority, by the former of these, at the instigation of the latter, when those who were set over that business made such havoc of the goods of the Papists, that their houses seemed to swim in their spoils, as in a river of pressed grapes. Dr. Goodwin much better interprets it of God's vengeance upon the carnal Protestants and professors of religion; since it is an angel out of the temple that will execute it, and another from the altar, zealous of God's worship, that will provoke to it; and since the winepress will be trodden without the city, the church; and which began in the wars in Germany, in the last age, and will have its full accomplishment when the whole outward court is given to the Gentiles; but how these, who are but a few, when compared with the wicked of the world, should be called the vine of the earth, I see not. Mr. Daubuz thinks this vision of the vintage has had, at least in part, its fulfilment in the late wars in the times of Queen Anne, the Popish countries being then made the seat of war, in which they suffered much; rather they come nearest to the truth of the matter, who take this to be the battle of the great God Almighty, under the sixth vial, Revelation 16:14 fought by the word of God, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who will tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, Revelation 19:15 when the beast and false prophet will both be destroyed: but inasmuch as Babylon is before declared to be fallen, Revelation 14:8 and since the gathering in of the Lord's wheat at the first resurrection is designed by the harvest, it is best to understand this vintage of the perdition of ungodly men by fire, at the conflagration of the world, which will be at the beginning of the thousand years' reign, and of the gathering of them in at the second resurrection, at the end of it, for the destruction of them in hell, soul and body. And by this "angel" is meant, not the saints of the most High; for though they may be said to come out of the temple, the church, and shall judge the world, yet they will not be employed in gathering together the wicked, and casting them into the lake of fire, or winepress of God's wrath: rather the ministering spirits are intended, who are the reapers at the end of the world, and who will gather the wicked, and bind them like tares in bundles, and cast them into the furnace of fire; though it is best to interpret this of Christ himself, who is often called an Angel in Scripture, as the Angel of God's presence; and the Angel of the covenant; and frequently in this book, as in Revelation 7:2 because, as Mediator, he is God's messenger; and he may be said to do that, which he does by others, as instruments, as to gather the vine of the earth, and cast it into the winepress; and he may be said to "come out of the temple which is in heaven": whether this be understood of heaven itself, which the temple, and especially the most holy place in it, was a figure of; here Christ is, and from hence he is expected to come, and will come at the last day, as Judge of all the earth; or of the church of God, for here Christ dwells, and grants his gracious and spiritual presence until his second and personal coming, with all his saints: and now he will have them all with him, both quick and dead, and will be personally in his temple, the church, in the great congregation of the righteous, and out from among them will he display his power in the destruction of the wicked; and the rather he may be thought to be intended, since none but a divine person ever trod the winepress of God's wrath; see Isaiah 63:1 to which may be added what follows,

he also having a sharp sickle; the same who is described as like to the son of man, on a white cloud, with a golden crown on his head, and such a sickle in his hand, Revelation 14:14 which is expressive of the same judiciary power and authority.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And another angel - The fifth in order. This angel came for a different purpose - with reference to the cutting off of the enemies of God, represented by the gathering of a vintage. Compare Matthew 13:41; Matthew 24:31.

Came out of the temple which is in heaven - Sent or commissioned by God. See the notes on Revelation 14:15.

He also having a sharp sickle - On the word “sickle,” see the notes on Revelation 14:14.


 
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