Revelation 22:1

ποταμόν. Text. Rec[863] has καθαρὸν ποταμὸν with 1.

[863] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

1. ποταμὸν … ζωῆς. See Revelation 7:17; Revelation 21:6.

ἐκ τοῦ θρόνου. In Ezekiel’s vision (chap. 47) the River proceeds out of the Temple, here out of the Temple’s antitype. We are also meant to think of the River that watered the ancient Paradise, Genesis 2:10, and of such parallels to Ezekiel’s vision as Psalms 46:4; Psalms 65:9; Zechariah 14:8. The original type, of which these Prophecies are developments, is the fact that there was a natural spring, which fills the pool of Siloam, in the precincts of the Temple at Jerusalem. We are not told here, as in the old Paradise, that the River is fourfold: but if the City stands on a pyramidal mountain (see on Revelation 21:16) it is likely enough that there is a stream running down each of its four faces, the throne which is the source being at the summit.