Revelation 7:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And cried with a loud voice,— "This vision, especially when compared with the former in the 4th and 5th Chapter s, is to be understood, I conceive, (says Mr. Lowman,) of the church in heaven. As heaven seems to be the proper scene of the vision, so the innumerable company of saints with whom the angels join in the following words, in the presence of God and the Lamb, is most naturally to be understood, I think of those who, having been faithful unto death, had received the crown of immortal life in the state of heavenly happiness. And, I question whether the praises of the church on earth will answer the prophetic description, or the intention of the prophetic spirit, in the great encouragement it designed to give to faithfulness and constancy. To understand itof the heavenly church, appears to me a natural sense of the expressions; a sense proper to the design of the prophesy, as it represents the faithful martyrs and confessors, once so great sufferers on earth, now blessed saints in heaven."