And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Ver. 15. Had a golden reed] Not those twelve Trent articles, or any human invention, but the word, as Revelation 11:1, wherewith is measured not the temple only, as there, but the city, gates, and wall, as Ezekiel 40:1,49 .
Verse Revelation 21:15. _HAD A GOLDEN REED_] Several excellent MSS. add μετρον, a _measure_; he had a _measuring rod made of gold_. This account of measuring the city seems to be copied, with variatio...
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME - The angel, Revelation 21:9. HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY - See the notes on Revelation 11:1. The reed, or measuring rod, here, is of gold, because all about the c...
CHAPTER 21 Revelation 21:1 . And now the eternal state comes into view. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and the sea is no more.” Thi...
REVELATION 21:1 TO REVELATION 22:5. THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w...
(_b_) THE MEASURING OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:9. seven bowls: _ cf._ ch. 16. Revelation 21:10. to a mountain: as in Ezekiel 40:2....
THE NEW CREATION (Revelation 21:1) _ 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone; and the sea was no more._ John has seen the doom of the wicked, a...
9 There came to me one of the seven angels who have the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me. "Come, he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he...
GOLDEN REED, &C. The texts add _metron_ here, as Revelation 21:17, and read "for. measure". TO. in order that. Greek. _hina._ MEASURE. he might measure....
_a golden reed_ So Revelation 11:1; this is more closely parallel to Ezekiel 40:3; Ezekiel 40:5. See also Zechariah 2:1. _the gates_ A
ΜΈΤΡΟΝ, ΚΆΛΑΜΟΝ ΧΡ. Text. Rec[828] omits μέτρον with 1 cop[829] arm[830], Primas[831] _harundinem auream ad mensuram_, אc μέτρον καλάμου. [828] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. [829] Cop...
THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
_JOHN IS SHOWN THE NEW JERUSALEM REVELATION 21:9-17:_ The description of the New Jerusalem had to do with the glory of God. There was security because of the gates and the walls that were great and hi...
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THERE CAME UNTO ME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS, &C.— A more particular description is now given of the new Jerusalem. _One of the seven angels_ (and most probably the same who had, ch. Revelation 17:1, &c...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXI BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are pass...
Strauss-' Comments The Vision of the New Jerusalem Chapter Revelation 21:9-27 _Revelation 21:9_ The heavenly messenger who bore the seven bowls of anger appeared again. John was invited to see the b...
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. HAD A GOLDEN REED. So Coptic; but 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, read, 'had (as) a m...
__ Second Temple Section-The Holy City 6 This is written from the standpoint of the time when John wrote, at Patmos, hence all is put in the future tense. _ This is vital to a true understanding of...
THE HOLY CITY The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. The Judgment is over. The old condition of things has passed away: cp. Revelation 20:11. Now St. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of...
Cp. Ezekiel 40:3....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8...
THE MEASUREMENT OF THE CITY. (15) AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME... — Or, better, _And he who was talking with me had a golden reed..._ The allusion here is to the angel mentioned in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 15:3...
CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. We are introdu...
The measures of the city are now taken, as in Ezekiel 40:3; Ezekiel 40:48; Ezekiel 42:16 f., to elucidate the vision (otherwise in Revelation 1
“THE HOLY CITY” Revelation 21:9 The “new Jerusalem” is the redeemed Church united with her Lord in the act of governing the whole world. A city is obviously the seat of imperial rule. In that blessed...
The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it i...
In Revelation 11:1, John had been given a reed, to measure the temple of God with, that was basically a stick. Here an angel measures the city of God in heaven with a golden reed. Measuring the city c...
(13) And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. (13) A transition to a more exquisite description of the parts of the Church, by fi...
(12) And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (13) On the eas...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
The Real New World Order I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places. --Mark Twain I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company --R.A....
But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth before God. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. The Lamb is...
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME,.... One of the seven angels, Revelation 21:9 for not a man is the measurer of this city, as in Ezekiel 40:3 nor John, as of the temple, Revelation 11:1 but an angel, the
_And he that talked with me had_ Like the angel who appeared in vision to Ezekiel; _a golden reed_, &c. A measuring-rod, with this circumstance of illustrious distinction, that it was golden; _to meas...
The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY AND THE GATES THEREOF AND THE WALL THEREOF....
THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and the earth had...
_ 15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall._ A. The angel who was serving as John’s guide asked him to measure the city, the gates and the wall. B. T...
9-21 God has various employments for his holy angels. Sometimes they sound the trumpet of Divine Providence, and warn a careless world; sometimes they discover things of a heavenly nature of the heir...
This seemeth to signify the transcendency of the state of the church now, to what it was before; it was then measured by a man, REVELATION 11:1, now by an angel; then by an ordinary reed, now by a gol...
Revelation 21:15 And G2532 talked G2980 (G5723) with G3326 me G1700 had G2192 (G5707) gold G5552 reed...
‘And he who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city and its gates and its wall. And the city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth, and he measured the c...
Revelation 21:15. The city is to be measured, in order that its noble and fair proportions may be seen. The angel measures it with A GOLDEN REED, the metal of the reed corresponding in dignity and val...
HAD (ειχεν). Regular imperfect here, no longer εχων.FOR A MEASURE A GOLDEN REED (μετρον καλαμον χρυσουν). See Revelation 11:1 for καλαμος (reed). Μετρον is an old word, kin to μητηρ (mother, mould...
Revelation 21:10 We feel instinctively the beauty and the grandeur of this passage descriptive of the Church of Christ when she shall have passed through the successive stages of her earthly warfare a...
Here we shall see a picture of what the Church of God is to be in the latter days; but inasmuch as this vision came out of heaven, it gives us an idea of what is in heaven already. Crowded as it is wi...
Revelation 21:9. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb'...
Revelation 21:1. _And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea._ Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, severa...
Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. 22). CONCLUSION: It will be the perfect happiness of the saints, when Christ re-turns to rei...
Revelation 21:1. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. Subterranean fires are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on...
COME, AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE BRIDE. Under the symbolism of [spiritual] Jerusalem, _the New Jerusalem,_ the wife of the Lamb [the church of Christ] is described. This Holy City is the Church Triumphan...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:15 MEASURING ROD OF GOLD. See Ezekiel 40:3. The city’s length and width and height are equal
Verse nine to the end of the chapter inclusive is occupied with a new vision of this holy city New Jerusalem. An angel said: "Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." And he showed h...
THE NEW JERUSALEM _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ “NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the temper of the...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 21:1 AND I SAW. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelation 20:11, etc.). Having described the origin and progress of evil in the world, the final overthrow of Satan...
_15 AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY, AND THE GATES THEREOF, AND THE WALL THEREOF._ _ 16 AND THE CITY LIETH FOURSQUARE, AND THE LENGTH IS AS LARGE AS THE BREADTH: AN...
I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); Now, we are beyond the thousand years. The first heaven is passed away. Peter tells us...
Exodus 40:3; Ezekiel 41:1; Revelation 11:1; Revelation 11:2; Zec
A golden reed. Add metron as a measure. See ch. Revelation 11:1. Compare Ezekiel 40:5....
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diffi
And he measured the city, twelve thousand furlongs — Not in circumference, but on each of the four sides. Jerusalem was thirtythree furlongs in circumference; Alexandria thirty in length, ten in bread...
Still St. John proceeds in the description of the heavenly state, and the church triumphant in it; this is called A CITY, in respect of its magnificent building, comely order, and invincible strength;...