Revelation 21:12

ἔχουσα. א reads ἔχοντι.

ἔχουσα. א* reads ἔχοντας, Primas[825] qui habet.

[825] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.

ἀγγέλους. Primas[826] has angulos.

[826] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.

12. ἔχουσα. A nominative participle in this context might in itself be a Hebraism rather than an anacoluthon: and this may be the construction here, though Hebrew has no direct equivalent to ἔχω.

ὑψηλόν. Its exact height is stated in Revelation 21:17.

ἔχουσα … Ἰσραήλ. So Ezekiel 48:31-34. Probably the order of the names on the gates would be the same as there; but the order can hardly be pressed as important, since it is quite different from that of the four-square encampment in the wilderness, Numbers 2. The 12 gates of heaven in Enoch xxxiii–xxxv. do not really present a very close parallel to these.

ἀγγέλους δώδεκα. As porters and sentinels to keep out intruders, not invaders, who never molest this City of Peace; the guards, like the walls and gates are for order rather than for defence.