“And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.”
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle - another angel, this one bearing a sickle for the vintage (the grape harvest), prepares for the final outpouring of judgment. The movement from grain harvest to grape harvest signals the shift from reaping the righteous to treading out judgment on the wicked.
Church Fathers on Revelation 14:17
“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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