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There is harmony between the angels and the saints in this triumphant song. Christ is the Bridegroom of his ransomed church. This second union will be completed in heaven; but the beginning of the glorious millennium (by which is meant a reign of Christ, or a state of happiness, for a thousand years on earth) may be considered as the celebration of his espousals on earth. Then the church of Christ, being purified from errors, divisions, and corruptions, in doctrine, discipline, worship, and practice, will be made ready to be publicly owned by him as his delight and his beloved. The church appeared; not in the gay, gaudy dress of the mother of harlots, but in fine linen, clean and white. In the robes of Christ's righteousness, imputed for justification, and imparted for sanctification. The promises of the gospel, the true sayings of God, opened, applied, and sealed by the Spirit of God, in holy ordinances, are the marriage-feast. This seems to refer to the abundant grace and consolation Christians will receive in the happy days which are to come. The apostle offered honour to the angel. The angel refused it. He directed the apostle to the true and only object of religious worship; to worship God, and him alone. This plainly condemns the practice of those who worship the elements of bread and wine, and saints, and angels; and of those who do not believe that Christ is truly and by nature God, yet pay him a sort of worship. They stand convicted of idolatry by a messenger from heaven. These are the true sayings of God; of Him who is to be worshipped, as one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/revelation/19.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Let us be glad and rejoice - Let all in heaven rejoice - for all have an interest in the triumph of truth; all should be glad that the government of God is set up over an apostate world.<p>And give honour to him - Because the work is glorious; and became it is by his power alone that it has been accomplished. See the notes on <a href="/revelation/5-12.htm">Revelation 5:12</a>.<p>For the marriage of the Lamb is come - Of the Lamb of God - the Redeemer of the world. See the notes on <a href="/revelation/5-6.htm">Revelation 5:6</a>. The relation of God, and especially of the Messiah, to the church, is often in the Scriptures represented under the image of marriage. See the <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/54-4.htm">Isaiah 54:4-6</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-4.htm">Isaiah 62:4-5</a> notes; <a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm">2 Corinthians 11:2</a> note; <a href="http://biblehub.com/ephesians/5-23.htm">Ephesians 5:23-33</a> note. Compare <a href="/jeremiah/3-14.htm">Jeremiah 3:14</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/31-32.htm">Jeremiah 31:32</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-19.htm">Hosea 2:19-20</a>. The idea is also said to be common in Arabic and Persian poetry. It is to be remembered, also, that papal Rome has just been represented as a frivolous and meretricious woman; and there is a propriety, therefore, in representing the true church as a pure bride, the Lamb's wife, and the final triumph of that church as a joyous marriage. The meaning is, that the church was now to triumph and rejoice as if in permanent union with her glorious head and Lord.<p>And his wife hath made herself ready - By putting on her beautiful apparel and ornaments. All the preparations had been made for a permanent and uninterrupted union with its Redeemer, and the church was henceforward to be recognized as his beautiful bride, and was no more to appear as a decorated harlot - as it had during the papal supremacy. Between the church under the papacy, and the church in its true form, there is all the difference which there is between an abandoned woman gaily decked with gold and jewels, and a pure virgin chastely and modestly adorned, about to be led to be united in bonds of love to a virtuous husband, <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/revelation/19.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>7. glad … rejoice—Greek, "rejoice … exult."<p>give—so B and Andreas. But A reads, "we will give."<p>glory—Greek, "the glory."<p>the marriage of the Lamb is come—The full and final consummation is at Re 21:2-9, &c. Previously there must be the overthrow of the beast, &c., at the Lord's coming, the binding of Satan, the millennial reign, the loosing of Satan and his last overthrow, and the general judgment. The elect-Church, the heavenly Bride, soon after the destruction of the harlot, is transfigured at the Lord's coming, and joins with Him in His triumph over the beast. On the emblem of the heavenly Bridegroom and Bride, compare Mt 22:2; 25:6, 10; 2Co 11:2. Perfect union with Him personally, and participation in His holiness; joy, glory, and kingdom, are included in this symbol of "marriage"; compare Song of Solomon everywhere. Besides the heavenly Bride, the transfigured, translated, and risen Church, reigning over the earth with Christ, there is also the earthly bride, Israel, in the flesh, never yet divorced, though for a time separated, from her divine husband, who shall then be reunited to the Lord, and be the mother Church of the millennial earth, Christianized through her. Note, we ought, as Scripture does, restrict the language drawn from marriage-love to the Bride, the Church as a whole; not use it as individuals in our relation to Christ, which Rome does in the case of her nuns. Individually, believers are effectually-called guests; collectively, they constitute the bride. The harlot divides her affections among many lovers: the bride gives hers exclusively to Christ.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/revelation/19.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> A late reverend author tells us: That as there is a three-fold resurrection mentioned in Scripture; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. A rising to a newness of life, <span class="bld"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm" title="Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.">Ephesians 5:14</a></span>; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. The conversion of the Jews, called <span class="ital">life from the dead, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/romans/11-15.htm" title="For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?">Romans 11:15</a></span>; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. In the end of the world: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>so there is a threefold marriage of the Lamb; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. To particular souls, when by faith they are united to Christ; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. To his church completed, when the Jews shall be called; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. When all his elect shall be made one with him in glory, after the general resurrection. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>He seemeth to understand it of all these. Probably the conversion of the Jews stayeth for the fall of the papacy, whose worship and persecution are great scandals to them. Probably also, upon the fall of it, many will be converted besides the Jews, and the general resurrection will not be far off. The learned Dr. More seems to restrain it to the Jews’ conversion; I had rather understand it more generally. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/revelation/19.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Let us be glad, and rejoice, and give honour to him,.... The saints particularly; the converted Jews will call upon one another to express their gladness at the glorious display of Christ's kingly power and authority, and at the destruction of his enemies, and the happy and comfortable state of his church and people; and to rejoice in him as the Lord their righteousness and strength, and to give him the honour and glory of salvation, and to return him thanks for all the benefits they shall have received from him, particularly on account of what follows: <p>for the marriage of the Lamb is come; that is, of Christ, the Son of God, with the Jewish church more especially; there was a secret betrothing of all the elect to Christ before the world began; and there is an open espousal of every individual of them at conversion; but the public and general solemnization of the nuptials will not be until the new Jerusalem church state takes place in the personal reign of Christ, hereafter mentioned, <a href="/revelation/21-1.htm">Revelation 21:1</a> but here, and as previous to that, there will be a very general and open marriage of Christ with the people of the Jews, who have long rejected and forsaken him; for if the conversion of a single person may be called a marriage with Christ, much more the conversion of such members; and which is often prophesied of under this metaphor of a marriage, as in <a href="/isaiah/62-4.htm">Isaiah 62:4</a>. And now the time will be come for the accomplishment of it, the evidence of which follows: <p>and his wife hath made herself ready, or "dressed herself"; by decking herself with jewels, and putting on her wedding garment provided for her, and given to her by her husband, the Lamb, as appears from the next verse: this preparation will lie partly in the number of converts that will be brought into the Jewish church, which she will receive and clothe herself with, as with the ornament of a bride, <a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm">Isaiah 49:18</a> and partly by the exercise of the several graces of the Spirit upon Christ, comparable to the jewels of a bride, with which she will be adorned for her husband; and also by putting on the robe of his righteousness, hereafter mentioned, which the old Jewish synagogue rejected, and therefore was cast off, <a href="/romans/10-3.htm">Romans 10:3</a>. The Arabic version reads, "the marriage of the Lamb is now come with his spouse, prepared for him"; and the Ethiopic version, "the marriage of his Lamb is come, and the wife is prepared"; and that her preparation is not by her own merits and works of righteousness, but by the grace of her husband, is clear from the following verse. Mr. Daubuz, by "the marriage of the Lamb", understands the first resurrection, and the state of the church at that time; and by "the fine linen", the dress of the church, next mentioned, the incorruptible body of the saints compared to a garment, <a href="/1_corinthians/15-53.htm">1 Corinthians 15:53</a> and by those who are afterwards said to be "called to the marriage", the converted nations in a mortal state: but all the saints will share in the first resurrection; besides, as yet the beast and false prophet are not destroyed, which must be before the first resurrection, as the following vision shows. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/revelation/19.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath <span class="cverse3">{7}</span> made herself ready.</span><p>(7) Namely, to that holy marriage, both herself in person in this verse, and also provided by her spouse with marriage gifts princely and divine, is adorned and prepared in the next verse.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/revelation/19.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/revelation/19-7.htm" title="Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.">Revelation 19:7</a>. A proleptic allusion to the triumphant bliss as a marriage between the victorious messiah and his people or the new Jerusalem (<span class="ital">cf.</span> Volz, 331). The conception is primarily eschatological (Weinel, p. 137; <span class="ital">cf.</span> Mechilta on <a href="/exodus/19-17.htm" title="And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.">Exodus 19:17</a>) and is so employed here. The marriage-day of Christ and his church is the day of his second advent. This is the more intimate and tender aspect of the divine <span class="greekheb">βασιλεία</span>. But, as a traditional feature of the Oriental myth (Jeremiah , 45 f.) was the postponement of the deity’s wedding until he returned from victory (<span class="ital">i.e.</span>, after vanquishing the darkness and cold of the winter), the religious application turns first of all to the overthrow of messiah’s foes (<a href="/revelation/19-11.htm" title="And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.">Revelation 19:11</a> f.).—<span class="greekheb">ἀγαλλιῶμεν</span>, act. as in <a href="/1_peter/1-8.htm" title="Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:">1 Peter 1:8</a> (<span class="ital">cf.</span> Abbott, <span class="ital">Diatessarica</span>, 2, 689).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/revelation/19.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div>The Marriage of the Lamb, <a href="/context/revelation/19-7.htm" title="Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready....">Revelation 19:7-9</a><span class="bld">7</span>. <span class="ital">honour</span>] Better, <span class="bld">the glory</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">the marriage of the Lamb</span>] The first suggestion of this image in the N. T. is in our Lord’s parables, St <a href="/matthew/22-2.htm" title="The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,">Matthew 22:2</a>; <a href="/context/matthew/25-1.htm" title="Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom....">Matthew 25:1-10</a> : it is more fully worked out by St Paul, <a href="/context/ephesians/5-22.htm" title="Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord....">Ephesians 5:22-32</a>. But men’s minds were prepared for it by the language of all the Prophets about the spiritual marriage of the Lord and Israel: still more, perhaps, by that of the 45th Psalm, rising so far above the royal marriage that no doubt furnished its occasion. And there is little doubt that the Song of Songs was already mystically interpreted among the Jews, though its claim to a place in the Canon was still disputed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">his wife</span>] Called by St John the New Jerusalem, <a href="/revelation/21-2.htm" title="And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.">Revelation 21:2</a>, by St Paul both by that name, <a href="/galatians/4-26.htm" title="But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.">Galatians 4:26</a>, and more simply the Church, <a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm" title="For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.">Ephesians 5:23</a> sqq.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/revelation/19.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/revelation/19-7.htm" title="Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.">Revelation 19:7</a>. [210] <span class="greekheb">Ἡτοίμασεν ἑαυτὴν</span>, <span class="ital">hath prepared herself</span>) that is, hath begun to prepare herself; as <span class="greekheb">τεπίστευκα</span>, <span class="greekheb">ἠγάπηκα</span>, <span class="greekheb">ἤλπικα</span>, <span class="ital">I have obtained faith</span>, etc. Respecting the marriage itself, see ch. <a href="/revelation/21-2.htm" title="And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.">Revelation 21:2</a>; <a href="/revelation/21-9.htm" title="And there came to me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.">Revelation 21:9</a>, etc.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[210] 6. <span class="greekheb">καὶ</span>, <span class="ital">and</span>) The stirring call brought forward in ver. 5, Hallelujah! is now fully responded to.—V. g.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/revelation/19.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him;</span> <span class="accented">let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him.</span> Alford reads <span class="greek">δώσομεν</span>, "we will give," with <span class="hebrew">א</span>, A. P, 36; but the T.R. <span class="greek">δῶμεν</span>, "let us give," which is found in <span class="hebrew">א</span>, B, 1, 7, 38, Vulgate, Cyprian, Primasius, is to be preferred. <span class="cmt_word">For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready</span>. This is somewhat anticipatory; the full vision of the bride of the Lamb is reserved until <a href="/revelation/21.htm">Revelation 21</a>. But the rejoicing over Babylon and the harlot naturally suggests the allusion to Christ's faithful Church, just as the vision of <a href="/revelation/7.htm">Revelation 7</a>. is suggested by the concluding words of <a href="/revelation/6.htm">Revelation 6</a>. "The marriage of the Lamb" is the figure under which is depicted that complete union between Christ and his faithful Church, which will be consummated at the last day, when Satan has been overcome and sin destroyed. It stands in contrast with the fornication of the harlot - the union of the spiritually unfaithful portion of Christ's Church with the powers of the world (see on Revelation 17:1, 2). Alford remarks, "This figure, of a marriage between the Lord and his people, is too frequent and familiar to need explanation (cf. in the Old Testament, <a href="/isaiah/54-1.htm">Isaiah 54:1-8</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Ezekiel 16:7</a>, etc.; <a href="/hosea/2-19.htm">Hosea 2:19</a>, etc.; and in the New Testament, <a href="/matthew/9-15.htm">Matthew 9:15</a>; <a href="/matthew/25-1.htm">Matthew 25:1</a>, etc.; <a href="/john/3-29.htm">John 3:29</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25</a>, etc.)." This symbol of the <span class="accented">wife</span> or <span class="accented">bride</span> indicates the redeemed, who have already in several places been alluded to in this book (<a href="/revelation/7-9.htm">Revelation 7:9</a>; <a href="/revelation/12-1.htm">Revelation 12:1</a>; <a href="/revelation/14-1.htm">Revelation 14:1</a>; <a href="/revelation/17-14.htm">Revelation 17:14</a>, "they that are with him"). The saints have made themselves <span class="accented">ready</span> by enduing themselves with the robe of righteousness (ver. 8). Revelation 19:7<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/revelation/19.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>The marriage of the Lamb<p>For the figure, compare <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/54-1.htm">Isaiah 54:1-8</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Ezekiel 16:7-14</a>; <a href="/hosea/2-19.htm">Hosea 2:19</a>; <a href="/matthew/9-15.htm">Matthew 9:15</a>; <a href="/john/3-29.htm">John 3:29</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm">Ephesians 5:25</a>. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/revelation/19-7.htm">Revelation 19:7 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../revelation/19-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Revelation 19:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Revelation 19:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../revelation/19-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Revelation 19:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Revelation 19:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>