12. As in a former vision, His eyes are like flames of fire. [1] The many diadems signify that Christ, the King of kings, is master of all nations. The name which no man knoweth expresses some perfection or attribute of our Saviour not yet made known to the world. It probably has some connection with the universal reign of the Church after Antichrist.
13, 14. The blood-stained garment may mean that victory for the Church was won through the merits of Christ and His martyrs as stated in xii, 11: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb . . . and they loved not their lives unto death. The blood may also be that of the enemies of Christ and His Church as is intimated by the treading of the winepress of God's anger (v. 15). This recalls the words of Isaias: "I have trodden the winepress alone ... I have tram pled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel." [2]
Our Lord is followed by an army of the faithful upon white horses, symbols of victory. They are the called and elect and faithful," mentioned in the preceding chapter, who fight with the Lamb against the ten kings. [3] They are probably the armies of faithful nations symbolized in xii, 16, by the earth that helps the
