Revelation 22:1

The Water and the Tree of Life; the Service and the Kingdom of God's Servants. Chap. 22 Revelation 22:1-5

1. pure Should be omitted.

river of water of life See Revelation 7:17; Revelation 21:6.

clear Bright would perhaps be more accurate.

proceeding out of the throne&c. In Ezekiel's vision (chap. 47) the River proceeded 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, that 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.