cling the "horns" of the beast, 13:1. So, when "the
King of kings" cometh, to take to himself his great power, and to reign,
and "the kingdoms of this world are become those of our Lord and of his
Christ" (11:15, 17), He, "the head of all principality and power" (Col.
2:10), at whose name "every knee should bow" (Phil. 2:9), is shown the
wearer of "many crowns."

"Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns,
Receive yet one, the crown of all the Earth,
Thou who alone art worthy! It was thine
By ancient covenant, ere nature's birth;
And thou hast made it thine by purchase since,
And overpaid its value with thy blood."
_Cowper's Task._

His "vesture dipped in blood" is symbolic of his coming to tread "the
wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God" (19:15), when he
shall "smite the nations," and "rule them with a rod of iron," (_Ib._)
Thus Isaiah prophesied: "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him
that treadeth in the wine-fat? I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of
the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger,
and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in
my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was
none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine
own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will
tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I
will bring down their strength to the earth," Isa. 63:1-6.

The "armies" which follow him, symbolize the attending saints and angels
who will accompany his advent. They are all "clothed in fine linen, white
and clean," which constituted the wedding garments of those who were
called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb, and which was worn by those who
had washed their robes, and made them white in his blood, (7:14); "for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints," 19:8. The righteous being
caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess. 4:17), "when
Christ, who is our life shall appear," they will "appear with him in
glory," (Col. 3:4); so that "the Lord my God shall come and all the saints