Gary Hampton Commentaries
Revelation 21:19,20
The twelve foundations were studded with the beautiful stones of John's day, some of which can no longer be positively identified.
The twelve foundations were studded with the beautiful stones of John's day, some of which can no longer be positively identified.
Verse Revelation 21:19. _THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL_] Does not this mean the foundations or _thresholds_ of the _gates_? The gates represented the twelve tribes, Revelation 21:12; and these foundati...
AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL OF THE CITY - notes on Revelation 21:14. WERE GARNISHED - Were adorned, or decorated. That is, the foundations were composed of precious stones, giving them this highl...
CHAPTER 21 Revelation 21:1 . And now the eternal state comes into view. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and the sea is no more.” Thi...
REVELATION 21:1 TO REVELATION 22:5. THE VISION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w...
(_c)_ THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:19 f. This list of stones should be compared with the stones of the high priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:17 ff. Exodus 39:10 ff.) and the description of...
9 There came to me one of the seven angels who have the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me. "Come, he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he...
THE NEW CREATION (Revelation 21:1) _ 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone; and the sea was no more._ John has seen the doom of the wicked, a...
AND. Omit. JASPER. Compare this and the other stones here with those in Aaron's breastplate (Exodus 28:17)....
_garnished_ The same word that is rendered "adorned" in Revelation 21:2. From the next sentence we are to understand that they are adorned by being _constructed_of these stones, not that stones are fa...
ΟἹ ΘΕΜ. Text. Rec[844] has καὶ οὶ with א* 1. [844] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. Ὁ ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΣ. א has ὁ εἷς. 19. ΘΕΜΈΛΙΟΙ … ΚΕΚΟΣΜΗΜΈΝΟΙ. From the next sentence we are to understand tha...
THE BUILDING, FOUNDATIONS AND STREET...
_NOTHING THAT DEFILES WILL ENTER INTO IT REVELATION 21:18-27:_ God takes the most precious things that we are familiar with and made the city of these. Imagine the worth of this wonderful place. It wi...
ΚΕΚΟΣΜΗΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΚΟΣΜΈΩ (G2885) украшать. _Perf._ указывает на непреходящее качество, ΪΑΣΠΊΣ (G2393) яспис. ΣΆΠΦΙΡΟΣ (G4552) сапфир. Это синий прозрачный драгоценный камен...
THERE CAME UNTO ME ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS, &C.— A more particular description is now given of the new Jerusalem. _One of the seven angels_ (and most probably the same who had, ch. Revelation 17:1, &c...
Strauss-' Comments The Vision of the New Jerusalem Chapter Revelation 21:9-27 _Revelation 21:9_ The heavenly messenger who bore the seven bowls of anger appeared again. John was invited to see the b...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXI BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW _Text (Revelation 21:1-27)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are pass...
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;...
__ Second Temple Section-The Holy City 6 This is written from the standpoint of the time when John wrote, at Patmos, hence all is put in the future tense. _ This is vital to a true understanding of...
THE HOLY CITY The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. The Judgment is over. The old condition of things has passed away: cp. Revelation 20:11. Now St. John sees in a vision the blissful glory of...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21:1-22 THE NEW *CREATION - REVELATION 21:1-8...
AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL... — Better, _The foundations of the wall of the city_ (_were_)_ adorned with every precious stone._ We may compare the adornment of the harlot (Revelation 17:4). Her r...
CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:1. THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. We are introdu...
The materials of the city. ἐνδώμησις, so an undated but pre-Christian inscription, τ. ἐνδώμησιν τοῦ τεμένους (Dittenberger's _Sylloge inscript_. _Graec._ 583), where the orthography is pronounced “nov...
“THE HOLY CITY” Revelation 21:9 The “new Jerusalem” is the redeemed Church united with her Lord in the act of governing the whole world. A city is obviously the seat of imperial rule. In that blessed...
The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it i...
(12) And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (13) On the eas...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
The Real New World Order I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places. --Mark Twain I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company --R.A....
But there was a new heaven and a new earth; but no more sea no separation, nor part of the world not brought into an ordered earth before God. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. The Lamb is...
AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL OF THE CITY,.... Which were twelve; see Revelation 21:14 were garnished with all manner of precious stones: see Isaiah 54:11 not that there were all manner of precious...
And the foundations of the wall of the city _were_ garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation _was_ jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emeral...
_And the foundations of the wall_ That is, the lower parts of it; _were garnished with all manner of precious stones_ Were inlaid quite round, and beautified with a great variety of them; or were beau...
The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL OF THE CITY WERE GARNISHED WITH ALL MANNER OF PRECIOUS STONES. THE FIRST FOUNDATION WAS JASPER; THE SECOND, SAPPHIRE; THE THIRD, A CHALCEDONY; THE FOURTH, AN EMERALD;...
THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and the earth had...
_ 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fift...
9-21 God has various employments for his holy angels. Sometimes they sound the trumpet of Divine Providence, and warn a careless world; sometimes they discover things of a heavenly nature of the heir...
AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WALL OF THE CITY, by which, we noted before, are to be understood the apostles, who, building upon the one foundation, Christ Jesus, by their holy doctrine laid the beginnin...
Revelation 21:19 G2532 foundations G2310 wall G5038 city G4172 with G2885 (G5772) kinds G3956 precious G5093
‘The foundations of the walls of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stone, the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth, emerald, the fifth, sa...
Revelation 21:19-20. The materials of the twelve courses of stones which formed the basement of the city are next mentioned (comp. on Revelation 21:14). They are not merely beautified with precious st...
WERE ADORNED (κεκοσμημενο). Perfect passive participle of κοσμεω as in verse Revelation 21:2, but without the copula ησαν (were), followed by instrumental case λιθω (stone).WITH ALL MANNER OF PRECI...
Revelation 21:10 We feel instinctively the beauty and the grandeur of this passage descriptive of the Church of Christ when she shall have passed through the successive stages of her earthly warfare a...
Revelation 21:1. _And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea._ Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, severa...
Here we shall see a picture of what the Church of God is to be in the latter days; but inasmuch as this vision came out of heaven, it gives us an idea of what is in heaven already. Crowded as it is wi...
Revelation 21:9. And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb'...
Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, Jerusalem, temple, light, Paradise (Chap. 22). CONCLUSION: It will be the perfect happiness of the saints, when Christ re-turns to rei...
Revelation 21:1. _I saw a new heaven and a new earth._ This was a welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. Subterranean fires are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding on...
COME, AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE BRIDE. Under the symbolism of [spiritual] Jerusalem, _the New Jerusalem,_ the wife of the Lamb [the church of Christ] is described. This Holy City is the Church Triumphan...
THE JASPER The first foundation was jasper. Revelation 21:19. Our stone for March is the jasper. I have chosen it because the blood-stone, which is one variety of jasper, is the birth-stone for the...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:19 The 12 jewels correspond to those engraved with the names of Israelite tribes on the high priest’s breastplate (Exodus 28:17). They also resemble stones as
Verse nine to the end of the chapter inclusive is occupied with a new vision of this holy city New Jerusalem. An angel said: "Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." And he showed h...
THE NEW JERUSALEM _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ “NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the temper of the...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 21:1 AND I SAW. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelation 20:11, etc.). Having described the origin and progress of evil in the world, the final overthrow of Satan...
_17 AND HE MEASURED THE WALL THEREOF, AN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR CUBITS, ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF A MAN, THAT IS, OF THE ANGEL._ _ 18 AND THE BUILDING OF THE WALL OF IT WAS OF JASPER: AND THE...
I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away (Revelation 21:1); Now, we are beyond the thousand years. The first heaven is passed away. Peter tells us...
Exodus 28:17; Exodus 29:10; Isaiah 54:11; Isaiah 54:12; Job 28:16;
All manner of precious stones. Compare Isaiah 54; Isaiah 11:12; 1 Chronicles 29:2. Sapphire [σ α π φ ε ι ρ ο ς]. Compare Isaiah 54:11;...
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diffi
And the foundations were adorned with precious stones — That is, beautifully made of them. The precious stones on the high priest's breastplate of judgment were a proper emblem to express the happines...