“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.”
'He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God' - the robe dipped in blood recalls Isaiah 63:2-3 (the warrior treading grapes in the winepress) and suggests both the blood of his sacrificial death and the blood of judgment against his enemies. 'The Word of God' (ho Logos tou Theou) is Christ's cosmic identity, the creative and revelatory principle of the universe.
Church Fathers on Revelation 19:13
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True.” The horse, and He that sits upon him, sets forth our Lord coming to His kingdom with the heavenly army. Because from the sea of the north, which is the Arabian Sea, even to the sea of Phœnice, and even to the ends of the earth, they will command these greater parts in the coming of the Lord Jesus, and all the souls of the nations will be assembled to judgment.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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