Revelation 21:10

τὴν ἁγίαν. 1 has τὴν μεγάλην καὶ ἁγίαν.

ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. B2 omits.

10. ἐν πνεύματι. Revelation 17:3; Revelation 1:10. Cf. Ezekiel 3:14.

ἐπὶ ὄρος μέγα καὶ ὑψηλόν. Ezekiel 40:2. The Seer is taken either to the Holy Mountain of the Lord or to a mountain from which he can see the whole of it. The preposition probably implies that he is set down on the mountain. In Ezek. l.c. the city apparently occupies the south side of the mountain, whence the seer views it.

καταβαίνουσαν … θεοῦ. Repeated verbatim from Revelation 21:2. If we suppose the Vision proper to begin at Revelation 21:1 the descent described is no doubt the same as there, but St John’s vision of the descent is not exactly the same. He has seen, as it were in the distance, the appearance of the city: but his attention was absorbed in listening to the sayings of Revelation 21:3-8. Now, he is summoned to attend to the vision, and finds it at the same stage where he noticed it in passing before.