"In Revelation 14 there are two hurtful intrusions, which help us to appraise at the their value the moral and intellectual sides of the editor's character. In Revelation 14:4 to the description of the 144,000 who follow the Lamb on Mount Zion and bear the name of God and of the Lamb on their foreheads the editor makes the addition, 'These are they who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins'. These interpolated clauses exclude from the 144,000 all women in any sense whatever, symbolically or metaphorically. But the range of excluded persons appears greater still. The words 'these are they who have not defiled themselves with women', when taken in connection with the interpolated words that follow 'for they are virgins', excludes in the opinion of some of the exegetes from the 144,000 all men except those that were strictly celibates. The editor thought that he found here a fit occasion for introducing his ascetic views owing to his misconception of a certain Greek word. He took this word to mean 'the first fruits' or elite of the the saints, the idea of priority shading off the into superiority. Now, if the 144,000 were the elite of all the saints, these to his narrow mind could be none other than male celibates. Thus neither St. Peter nor any other married apostle could appear amongst the 144,000. But that word has no such meaning here. Nearly three times out of four it means 'sacrifice' or 'gift', and not 'first fruits', in the LXX. In the Greek of our author's time and in the inscriptions in the neighborhood of Ephesus it was generally used in this sense.  Thus the 144,000 are said to be a sacrifice or offering to God as being martyrs. The souls under the altar in Revelation 6:9 are similarly conceived. They were regarded as offered on the heavenly altar. From this interpolation we pass on to another of this editor in Revelation 14:15-17. Here he reaches the climax of his stupidity. For by the insertion of these verses he has in the first place divided the Messianic Judgment into two acts, the former of which—added by him—is called the harvesting of the earth, Revelation 14:15-17, and the latter of which is called the vintaging of the earth, Revelation 14:18-20. In the next place he assigns the former to the Son of Man! and the latter and greater function to an unnamed angel! Thus the Son of Man or the Messiah is treated as subordinate to or at best as on an equality with an angel—a conception impossible in our author and indeed in Jewish and Christian literature as a whole. But our author never of the judgement as a harvesting of the earth, but as a vintaging and this vintaging is actually described at length in Revelation 19:11-21, where it is assigned to the Word of God, i,e. the Son of Man where it is said of Him that He 'treadeth on the winepress of the fierce wrath of God Almighty' (Revelation 19:15). The fact that, notwithstanding this clear appropriation to the Son of Man of the entire Messianic Judgement—described as a vintaging of the earth in Revelation 19:15—this editor could transfer it to an angel, betrays a depth of stupidity all but incomprehensible. He has done more than enough to justify his being branded as a heretic, but no doubt should be acquitted of this charge on the ground of hopeless ineptitude."

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