Revelation 21:6

It is done We should read the plural: the word therefore is not an exactrepetition of that in Revelation 16:17. If we ask, what is the subject to this verb, "Theyare come into being," perhaps the best answer is "all things." The new universe of which the creating Word has just gone forth, has now been made, "and God sees that it is good."

Alpha and Omega As in Revelation 1:8 (not 11), Revelation 22:13. Here, as in the former passage, it is God the Father that speaks.

of the fountain of the water of life See Revelation 7:17 and note, Revelation 22:1: also our Lord's words in St John's Gospel, John 4:14; John 7:38. The last quoted passage is, with a touching grotesqueness confounded with this in the Epistle describing the Martyrs of Gaul (Eus. H. E.v. i. 18).

freely i.e. not "abundantly," but gratis:cf. Isaiah 55:1.