3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here is, I. A prediction of Christ’s kingdom now near approaching, Mark 9:1. That which is foretold, is, 1. That the kingdom of God would come , and would come so as to be seen : the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up in the world by the utter destruction of the Jewish polity, which stood in the way of it; this was the restoring of the kingdom of God among men, which had been in a manner lost…
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