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Revelation 14:10

Eastern Fathers

Oecumenius

And he says that he will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed undiluted in the cup of His anger. The glorious David also remembers this cup and the wine, saying that "a cup is in the hand of the Lord, full of wine mixed undiluted, and he inclined from it to this: but the cluster of its vintage was not emptied; all the sinners of the earth shall drink." (Ps. …

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Dionysius bar Salibi

That is mixed undiluted—that is mixed without mixture, namely, a drink with which nothing is mixed or conjoined.

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Western Saints

Bede

And he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, etc. By saying, "And he also shall drink," he shows that there is another who drinks, so that he does not separate the one who, although visibly not mingling with the nations, yet under the name of Christ worships the same beast. …

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Bonaventure

Since the punishment for lustful disorder must be afflictive, because delight is punished through contrary sorrow: and the rational spirit in sinning turns itself to its own good and to what is present and partial, loving it lustfully, and from this despises the divine command and dominion: hence it is that, in order that that wicked delight be perfectly punished, in which there is simultaneously delight with contempt, it is necessary that for the punishment of that contempt and delight the sinner, whether man or spirit, be cast down …

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