Revelation 21:1
_New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. --- The first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to their substance, but in their qualities. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. --- The first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to their substance, but in their qualities. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
From the seventh verse of the foregoing chapter, begins as it were the third part of the Apocalypse containing the coming of antichrist, the great day of judgment, the punishment of the wicked, and the eternal happiness of God's elect in heaven, or in the celestial Jerusalem, which St. John describe... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold the tabernacle of God with men, inasmuch as God's elect shall there dwell with him for ever and ever. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_It is done. The state of Christ's Church on earth, and in this world, is now finished; and the time is come to reward the good, and to punish the wicked in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, in hell, with the devils for all eternity. (Witham) --- This living water is God himself, of which th... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb: all the Church triumphant in heaven. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The city is situate four-square; [1] and by what follows, so as to be a perfect square, though everything that is quadrangular is not always a square, or perfect square. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] In quadro, _Greek: tetragonos, quadrangularis._... [ Continue Reading ]
_The measure of a man, which is of an Angel. [2] This seems, without doubt, the sense of it. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Mensura hominis, quæ est Angeli; _Greek: metron anthropou, o estin aggelou._... [ Continue Reading ]
_No temple in it. No need of a temple for divine worship, where God is in such a perfect manner present to all the blessed, where nothing can distract or divert their souls from endless adorations, praises, &c. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Needeth not sun nor moon, where there is no vicissitude or succession of day and night, the divine brightness always shining to them. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The kings of the earth shall bring their glory; the elect, of all states and conditions, shall now be exalted like kings, or rather infinitely above the glory that we can imagine of any kings in this world. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall not enter it any thing defiled. This is what we ought always to remember and have in our minds. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]