SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:15
Y otro ngel sali del templo, clamando con alta voz al que estaba sentado sobre la nube: Mete tu hoz, y siega; porque la hora de segar te es venida, porque la mies de la tierra est seca.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:15
Verse 15. Thrust in thy sickle] Execute the judgments which God has decreed. For the harvest of the earth is ripe.] The cup of the people's iniquity is full.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. And another angel came out of the temple , etc.] Not the Holy Spirit, who, being God omniscient, knows the day and hour of judgment, which is a secret to men and angels, as Napier thinks; since though he dwells in the church as his temple, yet is never called an angel; nor does this angel represent the souls under the altar, who come out from thence, and importunately desire vengeance on the inhabitants of the earth, the worshippers of the beast, who had shed their blood; but rather the mighty angels who shall descend from heaven with Christ, and who shall be employed by him as reapers, to gather in his elect from the four winds, as well as to bind up the tares in bundles, and burn them; unless a set of Gospel ministers, as before, should be intended, who either by divine revelation, or by the signs of the time being come, and observed by them, will know that the harvest, or end of the world, is come; since this angel is said to come out of the temple, the church, which had been measured, and was now opened in heaven, and from whence angels are said to come, ( Revelation 11:1,19 15:5,6) crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud : as the first and third angels did, ( Revelation 14:7,9) denoting great vehemence and importunity: thrust in thy sickle, and reap: which being spoken by an inferior angel, whether this designs the ministering spirits, or preachers of the word, must be understood not as commanding, nor even directing what should be done, but as beseeching and entreating: (see <19D208> Psalm 132:8).
Dr. Lightfoot thinks, and not without reason, that there is here some allusion to the putting in of the sickle, and reaping the first corn in Judea, at the feast of the passover, by the order of the sanhedrim, which sat in the temple; nor did any reap till they had the word given them, reap, by the messengers of the court, called yd tyb yjwl , the angels, or messengers of the sanhedrim: to whom the reaper said, shall I reap? and they say to him, rwxq f362 , reap: the reasons follow: for the time is come for thee to reap ; the time of the end of the world, and of the judgment of it, which is fixed by God; and of Christ's coming to judge both quick and dead, and of the first resurrection, or the resurrection of the saints: for the harvest of the earth is ripe : the measure of the sins of wicked men will now be filled up, and the afflictions of the saints will be accomplished in them, and the number of God's elect will be completed in the effectual calling; they will be all called, and so things will be ripe for the second coming of Christ. There seems to be some reference to ( Joel 3:13) put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: the Jewish doctors ask f363 , to whom is this said? R. Phineas, in the name of R. Hilkiah, says, ykalml , to the angels; so the mighty ones, in ( Revelation 14:11) are by Kimchi interpreted of the angels.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-20 - Warnings and judgments not having produced reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up, and they become ripe for judgments, represente by a harvest, an emblem which is used to signify the gathering of the righteous, when ripe for heaven, by the mercy of God. The harvest tim is when the corn is ripe; when the believers are ripe for heaven, the the wheat of the earth shall be gathered into Christ's garner. And by vintage. The enemies of Christ and his church are not destroyed, til by their sin they are ripe for ruin, and then he will spare them n longer. The wine-press is the wrath of God, some terrible calamity probably the sword, shedding the blood of the wicked. The patience of God towards sinners, is the greatest miracle in the world; but, thoug lasting, it will not be everlasting; and ripeness in sin is a sure proof of judgment at hand __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 αλλος 243 αγγελος 32 εξηλθεν 1831 5627 εκ 1537 του 3588 ναου 3485 κραζων 2896 5723 εν 1722 μεγαλη 3173 φωνη 5456 τω 3588 καθημενω 2521 5740 επι 1909 της 3588 νεφελης 3507 πεμψον 3992 5657 το 3588 δρεπανον 1407 σου 4675 και 2532 θερισον 2325 5657 οτι 3754 ηλθεν 2064 5627 σοι 4671 η 3588 ωρα 5610 του 3588 θερισαι 2325 5658 οτι 3754 εξηρανθη 3583 5681 ο 3588 θερισμος 2326 της 3588 γης 1093
Vincent's NT Word Studies
15. Thrust in (pemyon). Lit., send. Rev., send forth.Harvest (qerismov). See on Luke x. 2.
Is ripe ( exhranqh). Lit., was dried. Compare Mark xi. 20; John xv. 6. Rev., is over-ripe.
