And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,.... The Complutensian edition, and all the Oriental versions, with the Vulture Latin, read, "a sharp twoedged sword". The word of God, or the judiciary sentence of Christ according to it, and which he will fully execute, to the utter destruction of all his enemies;See Gill on "Re 1:16" that with it he should smite the nations; the Gentiles, the Papists, the antichristian states, those that have adhered to Babylon, and have drunk of the wine of her fornication.
This is predicted in Nu 24:17 and on account of this the nations will be angry under the sounding of the seventh trumpet, with which this vision is contemporary, Re 11:18.