Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 7:14

14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest . And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation , and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb :

John confessing his own Ignorance, applies himself to this Elder for Instruction, who tells him,

These were the Souls of them that came out of great Sufferings and Persecution.

But he addeth, that they were such as were washed in the Blood of Christ. Suffering will not bring us to Heaven, without having our Souls washed with the Blood of Christ.

Marginal references: Isa. 1.18. Heb. 9.14. 1 Joh. 1.7. Chap. 1.6. Zech. 3.3, 4, 5.