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Revelation (Apocalypse) 19
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. CCC
2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands. CCC
3 And again they said: Alleluia. And her smoke ascendeth for ever and ever. CCC
4 And the four and twenty ancients and the four living creatures fell down and adored God that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen. Alleluia. CCC
5 And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants: and you that fear him, little and great. CCC
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying: Alleluia: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, hath reigned. CCC
7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself. CCC
8 And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints. CCC
9 And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true. CCC
10 And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to me: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight.
12 And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many diadems. And he had a name written, which no man knoweth but himself.
13 And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD.
14 And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.
16 And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. CCC
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.
19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone. Fathers
21 And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon the horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
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- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 757 “The Church, further, which is called 'that Jerusalem which is above' and 'our mother', is described as the spotless spouse of the…”
- CCC 1602 “Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision…”
- CCC 1612 “The nuptial covenant between God and his people Israel had prepared the way for the new and everlasting covenant in which the…”
- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 2642 “The Revelation of "what must soon take place," the Apocalypse, is borne along by the songs of the heavenly liturgy 127 but…”
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- CCC 1244 “First Holy Communion. Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding garment, the neophyte is admitted "to the marriage supper…”
- CCC 1329 “The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his…”
- CCC 1602 “Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision…”
- CCC 1612 “The nuptial covenant between God and his people Israel had prepared the way for the new and everlasting covenant in which the…”
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- CCC 966 “Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was…”
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“… person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall do according to his own will and choice, sitting also in the temple of God, so that his dupes may adore him as the Christ; wherefore also shall he deservedly "be cast into the lake of fire:”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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