Revelation 14:19 Revelation 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. By the vine of the earth we are to understand the Church of Rome degenerated. \ The church in Rome was a true church in the days of the Apostles, unto whom St. Paul writ an epistle. \ But the Church of Rome is degenerated, and is become the great whore, mystical Babylon, etc. And the angel thrust in his sickle, see Revelation 19:15. That wine press was (as this is) the great wine press of the wrath of God.