Revelation 21:21

δώδ. μαργ. א* omits δώδ.

ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκ. A has ἵνα εἷς ἕκ. P ἀνὰ εἷς καὶ ἕκ.

21. μαργαρῖται. Contrast Isaiah 54:12 where they are carbuncles (LXX. κρυστάλλου).

ἡ πλατεῖα. “Street” (A. V[861]) or “square”: see on Revelation 11:8. The City has one great space in the midst of it, like an Agora or Forum: but the word Agora would have associations, commercial or political, that would be incongruous with the repose of this city. And the associations of ‘street’ are no less misleading, the typical eastern city had one gate par excellence, and one street which led from the void space at the entering in of the gate to the court of the king’s palace; hence it is unnecessary to conjecture that if the city was built on a pyramidal mountain a single street might go round to its twelve gates, and then ascend the mountain like the ramp of the Assyrian temples. It is probably the pavement of the street which, like the walls of the houses, is of transparent gold.

[861] Authorised Version.