And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb — Figuratively showing that the inhabitants of the city had built only on that faith which the apostles once delivered to the saints.
Verse Revelation 21:14. _THE WALL-HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS_] Probably twelve stones, one of which served for a _foundation_ or _threshold_ to each gate; and on these were inscribed the names of the twel...
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS - It is not said whether these foundations were twelve rows of stones placed one above another under the city, and extending round it, or whether they w...
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....
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...
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...
FOUNDATIONS. Greek. _themelios._ See App-146. IN. The texts read App-104. APOSTLES. The twelfth will be Matthias, not Judas, See App-174 and App-189. Twelve is the basic number of the measurements o...
_And the wall … twelve foundations_ Probably each of the twelve sections into which the wall is divided by the gates rests on an enormous jewel, reaching from gate to gate. This symbolises the solidit...
THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
ἜΧΩΝ. א* omits, אc has ἔχον. 14. There is a little difficulty in harmonising this verse with Revelation 21:19-20. Taking this verse by itself we should suppose the twelve foundations were twelve monol...
_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...
ΈΧΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΘΕΜΈΛΙΟΣ (G2310) основание. Вероятно, в основание всегда закладывались прочные удлиненные каменные блоки, как это можно наблюдать в нижних рядах иродиан...
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 the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. TWELVE FOUNDATIONS. Joshua, the type of Jesus, chose twelve of the people to carry stones...
__ 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...
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...
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD... — Or, rather, _And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb._ There were twelve large stones forming...
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...
ἔχων, another rough asyndeton. θεμελίους κ. τ. λ., a symbolical and corporate expression for the historical origin of the church in the primitive circle of the disciples who adhered to Jesus (_cf._ on...
“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...
The names of the Old Testament faithful have already been set forth in the symbolism of the twelve tribes and we now see the New Testament faithful joined to them under the fiure of the twelve apostle...
And the wall of the city had (12) twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (12) That is, foundation stones, according to the number of the gates, as is shown in ...
(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 THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS,.... Christ is the one and only foundation of his church and people, of the covenant of grace, and of salvation; and of faith, hope, peace, and joy, and...
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Ver. 14. _And the wall_] A wall the Church hath about it, and a well within it, Revelation 2...
_And there came unto me one of the seven angels_ Most probably the same who had (Revelation 17:1, &c.) showed John the mystic Babylon and her destruction, and now shows him, by way of contrast, the ne...
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS AND IN THEM THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE LAMB. Although the entire description is given in figures, in type and allegory, yet we are able to...
The vision of the heavenly Jerusalem:...
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...
_ 14 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb._ A. The city has 12 foundations. The church was built on the foundation of the apo...
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...
AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS; the ancient church of God was founded in twelve patriarchs, and twelve tribes; the gospel church in twelve apostles; Christ is the only foundation of b...
Cyprian Epistle LXVIII Peter speaks there, on whom the Church was to be built,[21]...
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‘And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.' The city is founded on the twelve apostles, as was the Temple which comprised the church...
Revelation 21:14. From the gates we are next taken to the foundations. AND THE WALL OF THE CITY HAD TWELVE FOUNDATIONS (comp. Hebrews 11:10). We are not to think of foundations buried in the earth, bu...
HAD (εχων). Masculine present active participle of εχω instead of εχον (neuter like to τειχος), and the participle occurs independently as if a principal verb (ειχεν) as often in this book.TWELVE F...
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...
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...
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...
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 21:12 The city’s HIGH WALL and TWELVE GATES symbolize absolute protection. The gates bear the names of Israel’s TWELVE TRIBES, and the Lamb’s
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...
_11 HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD: AND HER LIGHT WAS LIKE UNTO A STONE MOST PRECIOUS, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL;_ _ 12 AND HAD A WALL GREAT AND HIGH, AND HAD TWELVE GATES, AND AT THE GAT...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:11; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 3:5;...
Foundations [θ ε μ ε λ ι ο υ ς]. See on the kindred verb qemeliwsei shalt settle, 1 Peter 5:10. In them the names [ε ν α υ τ ο ι ς ο ν ο μ α τ α]. The correct reading is ejp' aujtwn dwdeka ojnomata,...
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