Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Revelation 21:18
And the building of the wall was jasper — That is, the wall was built of jasper. And the city — The houses, was of pure gold.
And the building of the wall was jasper — That is, the wall was built of jasper. And the city — The houses, was of pure gold.
Verse Revelation 21:18. _THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS_ OF _JASPER_] The oriental jasper is exceedingly hard, and almost indestructible. Pillars made of this stone have lasted some thousands of y...
AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT - The material of which the wall was composed. This means the wall above the foundation, for that was composed of twelve rows of precious stones, Revelation 21:14, R...
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...
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(_c)_ THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:19 f. This list of stones should be compared with the stones of the high priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:17 ff. Exodus 39:10 ff.) and the description of...
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...
BUILDING. fabric, or material. Greek. _endomesis._ Only here. pure, clear. Same word....
The building foundations and street, Revelation 21:18-21 18. _And the building_ The word is a half-technical one, as it were "the superstructure," as distinct from the foundations. _jasper_ See on R...
ΚΑῚ Ἡ. So Lach[838] Tisch[839] W. H[840] and Weiss with אcAP; א* has ἦν for ἡ; Text. Rec[841] reads καὶ ἦν ἡ with B2, vg[842] and Primas[843] [838] Lachmann’s larger edition. [839] Tischendorf: eigh...
THE BUILDING, FOUNDATIONS AND STREET...
_NOTHING THAT DEFILES WILL ENTER INTO IT REVELATION 21:18-27:_ God takes the most precious things that we are familiar with and made the city of these. Imagine the worth of this wonderful place. It wi...
ΈΝΔΏΜΗΣΙΣ (G1739) строение, здание (Ford; Mounce). ΚΑΘΑΡΌΣ (G2513) чистый, ΎΑΛΟΣ (G5194) стекло....
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 building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. THE BUILDING - `the structure' (Tregelles) [ endoomeesis (G1746a)]. GOLD, LIKE UNTO CLEAR GLA...
__ 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...
THE BUILDING OR MATERIAL OF THE CITY. (18) AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL... — Or, _And the building-work_ (or, _the masonry,_ so Alford) _of the wall of it was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like...
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 materials of the city. ἐνδώμησις, so an undated but pre-Christian inscription, τ. ἐνδώμησιν τοῦ τεμένους (Dittenberger's _Sylloge inscript_. _Graec._ 583), where the orthography is pronounced “nov...
“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 wall was made of jasper, or diamonds, and the city was of a gold so pure one could see through it....
(15) And the building of the wall of it was [of] jasper: and the city [was] pure gold, like unto clear glass. (15) The matter most precious and glittering, which the presence of God makes most glorio...
(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 BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER,.... Which is expressive of the impregnableness, duration, brightness, and glory of salvation by Christ, the jasper being a very hard, durable, and bri...
And the building of the wall of it was _of_ jasper: and the city _was_ pure gold, like unto clear glass. Ver. 18. _Was of jasper_] A stone of great worth and glory, the beauty whereof, saith one, it...
_And he measured the wall thereof_ That is, Lowman thinks, the _height_ of the wall; _one hundred and forty-four cubits_ The square of twelve: about seventy-two yards high, according to the lesser cub...
AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER; AND THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD, LIKE UNTO CLEAR GLASS....
The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
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...
_ 18 The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass._ A. The wall is of jasper (perhaps diamond) and the city is pure gold. B. The gold is so pure that it i...
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 BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER; strong and impregnable, not subject to impressions from enemies, as it is said of the jasper, that no hammer will break it. AND THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD...
Revelation 21:18 G2532 construction G1739 its G846 wall G5038 was G2258 (G5713) jasper G2393 and G2532 city
‘And the building of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold like pure glass.' The jasper is presumably similar to the jasper of Revelation 21:11, clear as crystal which, with the glass-like n...
Revelation 21:18. The measuring has been completed. We have next the materials of which the city was composed. Those of the wall are first mentioned. AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS JASPER. We...
THE BUILDING OF THE WALL (η ενδωμησις του τειχους). Or ενδομησις, elsewhere so far only in Josephus (_Ant_. XV. 9. 6, a mole or breakwater) and in an inscription (_Syll_. 583 31), apparently from ε...
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 21:18 PURE GOLD may be literal gold that shows the bride’s priceless value and purity, or it may simply be symbolic....
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...
_17 AND HE MEASURED THE WALL THEREOF, AN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR CUBITS, ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF A MAN, THAT IS, OF THE ANGEL._ _ 18 AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER: AND THE...
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...
Revelation 21:11; Revelation 21:19; Revelation 21:21...
The building [ε ν δ ο μ η σ ι ς]. Only here in the New Testament. From ejn in and dwmaw to build. Lit., that which is built in. Hence the building of the wall is the material built into the wall; of w...
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
Some will have all this to signify and represent the purest state of the church here upon earth; but if there shall be any state on this side eternity which answereth this glorious representation, how...