“And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.”
So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested - the Son of Man executes the harvest, gathering the righteous and separating them from the wicked. This is the judgment of the nations, the final separation of the sheep from the goats.
Church Fathers on Revelation 14:16
“Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather in the grapes of the vine,” he signifies it of the nations that should perish on the advent of the Lord. And indeed in many forms he shows this same thing, as if to the dry harvest, and the seed for the coming of the Lord, and the consummation of the world, and the kingdom of Christ, and the future appearance of the kingdom of the blessed.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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