“And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name - the endless torment underscores the finality of that judgment. Those who in life chose the beast's system over God's kingdom inherit a destiny of unending anguish separated from his presence.
Church Fathers on Revelation 14:11
“And I saw an angel flying through the midst of heaven.” The angel flying through the midst of heaven, whom he says that he saw, we have already treated of above, as being the same Elias who anticipates the kingdom of Antichrist in his prophecy. “And another angel following him.” The other angel following, he speaks of as the same prophet who is the associate of his prophesying. But that he says —
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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