“And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.”
His feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters — feet of burnished bronze suggest power and judgment, refined through fire suggesting purity tested and proven. The voice like many waters (compare Ezekiel 43:2) is overwhelming, cosmic; it drowns out all other voices and commands absolute attention and obedience.
Church Fathers on Revelation 1:15
“His feet were like yellow brass, as if burned in a furnace.” He calls the apostles His feet, who, being wrought by suffering, preached His word in the whole world; for He rightly named those by whose means the preaching went forth, feet. Whence also the prophet anticipated this, and said: “We will worship in the place where His feet have stood.” Because where they first of all stood and confirmed the Church, that is, in Judea, all the saints shall assemble together, and will…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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