NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Revelation 21:11
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth
And the gate glittered to such a degree under the sunbeams, that I marvelled at the splendour of the gate;[4]
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth
And the gate glittered to such a degree under the sunbeams, that I marvelled at the splendour of the gate;[4]
Verse Revelation 21:11. _HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD_] Instead of the sun and moon, it has the splendour of God to enlighten it. _UNTO A STONE MOST PRECIOUS, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS_ _CRYSTAL...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD - A glory or splendor such as became the dwelling place of God. The nature of that splendor is described in the following verses. AND HER LIGHT - In Revelation 21:23 it is said...
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...
(_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....
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...
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...
GLORY. See p. 1611. AND. Omit. LIGHT. App-130....
_Having the glory of God_ i.e. the visible cloud of glory (cf. Hebrews 9:5), the Shechinah of the divine Presence. See Revelation 21:23. _and her light_ Omit "and". The word for LIGHT is peculiar it...
THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
ἜΧΟΥΣΑΝ ΤΉΝ ΔΌΞΑΝ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. A omits, cop[822] omits τοῦ θεοῦ, א Iren[823]gr[824] insert ἀπὸ before τοῦ θεοῦ. [822] Coptic. [823] St Irenaeus where the Greek is extant. [824] St Irenaeus where the G...
_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...
ΈΧΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΔΌΞΑ (G1391) слава, сияние. Это сияние, исходящее от присутствия и славы Бога, Шехина (Mounce; TDNT; NIDNTT; TLNT; TS, 37-65). ΦΩΣΤΉΡ (G5458) излучен...
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...
Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD - not merely the Shechinah, but God Himself, as her g...
__ 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...
21:11 shining (c-7) 'Lightbearer' (used for heavenly luminaries), but here it would seem in general 'brightness' or 'shining.' 'She was the lightbearer,' 'she as a lightbearer was.' Elsewhere used onl...
JASPER] see on Revelation 4:3....
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...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD... — The glory of God is the glorious presence of God, the true Shechinah, of which we have read before (Revelation 15:8, and see Revelation 21:23). The light of the city is de...
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...
“With the dazzling splendour of God,” _cf._ on Revelation 21:3; Ezekiel 43:5; Isaiah 60:1-2. _Uxor splendet radiis mariti_; δόξα, here, as usually in a apocalyptic literature, denotes the manifestatio...
“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...
John did not need a high vantage point to see the harlot but does to see Jesus' bride. The word "great" is not in the original. She is holy in that she is separated from sin for God's purpose. Her glo...
(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's wife. (10)...
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...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD,.... Not only upon their souls, which will lie in the glorious robe of Christ's righteousness, the bride's wedding garment being on them, in the perfect holiness which will be...
Having the glory of God: and her light _was_ like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; Ver. 11. _Having the glory, of God_] Who putteth upon her his own comeliness,...
_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...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD; AND HER LIGHT WAS LIKE UNTO A STONE MOST PRECIOUS, EVEN LIKE A JASPER STONE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL;...
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...
_ 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal._ A. The church, the true and faithful church, has the glory of God. The church was plann...
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...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD; a most excellent glory, received from God. AND HER LIGHT, that is, (as some interpret it), that which gave her light, (as the sun is called the light of the earth), or her enl...
Revelation 21:11 having G2192 (G5723) glory G1391 God G2316 G2532 Her G846 light G5458 like G3664 precious...
‘Her light was like a most precious stone, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal, having a wall great and high, having twelve entrances, and at the entrances twelve angels, and names written on...
VISION 10 THE BRIDE, THE NEW JERUSALEM (REVELATION 21:9 TO REVELATION 22:5). ‘And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues, and he spoke w...
Revelation 21:11. The description of the city begins, and first she is spoken of as HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD. This light lightens her both within and without. From the subsequent description it appears...
HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD (εχουσαν την δοξαν του θεου). Syntactically this clause goes with verse Revelation 21:10, the feminine accusative singular participle εχουσαν agreeing with πολιν, the radianc...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 1:22; Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 28:14; Ezekiel 2
Glory of God. Not merely divine brightness, but the presence of the God of glory Himself. Compare Exodus 40:34. Light [φ ω σ τ η ρ]. Strictly, luminary; that with which the city is illumined, tlle he...
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
Having the glory of God — For her light, Revelation 21:23, Isaiah 40:1, Zechariah 2:5. Her window — There was only one, which ran all round the city. The light did not come in from without through thi...