“And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”
They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia - the winepress outside the city (reminiscent of the execution of Christ) becomes the place of final judgment. The blood rising to horses' bridles over 1,600 stadia (two hundred miles) expresses the vast and terrible scope of God's final wrath.
Church Fathers on Revelation 14:20
“And the angel thrust in the sickle, and reaped the vine of the earth, and cast it into the wine-press of the wrath of God. And the wine-press of His fury was trodden down without the city.” In that he says that it was cast into the wine-press of the wrath of God, and trodden down without the city, the treading of the wine-press is the retribution on the sinner. “And blood went out from the wine-press, even unto the horse-bridles.” The vengeance of shed blood as was before…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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