Revelation 21:23

Another fulfilment of the O.T. ideal (Isaiah 60:19-20). It is a Jewish-Christian symbol for Paul's thought God shall be all and in all. So in 4 Ezra 7 :[42] at the last judgment there is neither sun nor moon nor any natural light, “but only the splendour of the glory of the Most High”. “As the sun of righteousness Christ has been able to vanquish the sol inuictus of the Roman Cæsar-cultus” (Usener, Gôtternamen, p. 184). A cruder form of the idea occurs in the pseudo-Philonic Biblic. Antiquit. where “non erat necessarium lumen (for the night-march), ita exsplendebat genuinum lapidum lumen” (i.e., of the jewels on the Amorite idols), jewels which were replaced by twelve precious stones each engraved with the name of one of the twelve tribes.