the just made perfect, celebrating God’s righteous judgment upon Rome. This first song of praise of the heavenly church, which magnifies the grace of God contemplated as already past, is immediately followed up in ch. 19:5–10 by a second, which anticipatively gives thanks for what was still to be done, even to the setting up of the kingdom of Almighty God, and the celebration of the marriage feast of the Lamb; so that it forms the introduction to all that follows. The following portion represents