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Verse Revelation 21:21. _THE TWELVE GATES_ WERE _TWELVE PEARLS_] This
must be merely figurative, for it is out of all the order of nature to
produce a _pearl_ large enough to make a _gate_ to such an...
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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...
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(_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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STREET. Greek. _plateia._ See Revelation 22:2 and Compare Revelation
11:8. Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number). App-6.
AS IT WERE. Not that it is glass, but gold of. kind unknown to us....
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_pearls_ Contrast Isaiah 54:12, where they are carbuncles.
_the street_ Or "square:" see on Revelation 11:8. The City has one
great space in the midst of it, like an Agora or Forum: but the word
Agora...
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ΔΏΔ. ΜΑΡΓ. א* omits δώδ.
ἈΝᾺ ΕἿΣ ἝΚ. A has ἵνα εἷς ἕκ. P ἀνὰ
εἷς καὶ ἕκ.
21. ΜΑΡΓΑΡΙ͂ΤΑΙ. Contrast Isaiah 54:12 where they are
carbuncles (LXX. κρυστάλλου).
Ἡ ΠΛΑΤΕΙ͂Α. “Street” (A. V[861]) or “squa...
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THE BUILDING, FOUNDATIONS AND STREET...
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_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...
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ΜΑΡΓΑΡΊΤΗΣ (G3135) жемчуг.
άνά0324) каждый, распределительное
использование предлога, ήν _impf. ind. act.
от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΠΛΑΤΕΊΑ (G4113) улица, широкая улица,
ΔΙΑΥΓΉΣ (G1307) прозрачный, яс...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of
one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass.
EVERY SEVERAL - `each one severally.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE TWELVE GATES... — Or, _gate-towers._ Each gate was of one
pearl — _i.e.,_ made out of one pearl. The foundations are diverse;
the gates are alike. There is one way, though there are many roads...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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As we continue to read the beautiful descriptions of this city, we
cannot help but think this is the Almighty's answer to the questions
of Revelation 18:18. Each gate, or gate tower, is hewn out of on...
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And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of
one pearl: and the (d) street of the city [was] pure gold, as it were
transparent glass.
(d) By street, he means the broadest plac...
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(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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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AND THE TWELVE GATES WERE TWELVE PEARLS,.... Denoting the purity and
preciousness of Christ, by whom the saints enter, and of the saints
who enter in thereat, as well as of the place into which they e...
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And the twelve gates _were_ twelve pearls; every several gate was of
one pearl: and the street of the city _was_ pure gold, as it were
transparent glass.
Ver. 21. _And the twelve gates_] _i.e._ Gatek...
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Revelation 21:21. "And the street of the city was pure gold, like unto
transparent glass." This does most livelily represent the perfect
purity of that city and its inhabitants. In the most stately an...
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AND THE TWELVE GATES WERE TWELVE PEARLS; EVERY SEVERAL GATE WAS OF ONE
PEARL; AND THE STREET OF THE CITY WAS PURE GOLD, AS IT WERE
TRANSPARENT GLASS.
This is a picture which, both as a whole, by the i...
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The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
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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...
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_ 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of
one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent
glass._
A. The gates on which are the names of the 12 tribe...
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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...
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I am not willing to descant further in particulars, conjecturing (for
it is no more) what each metaphorical term signifies in this unusual
description of a city. I do think the scope of the whole is n...
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Revelation 21:21 G2532 twelve G1427 gates G4440 twelve G1427 pearls
G3135 each G1538 G303 individual G1520 g
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‘And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each one of the several
gates was one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, as it
were transparent glass.'
In Matthew 7:6 pearls represented what w...
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Revelation 21:21. Having described the foundations, the Apostle now
passes to the gates and street of the city. AND THE TWELVE GATES WERE
TWELVE PEARLS; EVERY SEVERAL GATE WAS OF ONE PEARL. No attempt...
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TWELVE PEARLS
(δωδεκα μαργαριτα). These gate towers (πυλωνες)
were mentioned in verses Revelation 21:12. Each of these (cf. Isaiah
54:12) is a pearl, one of the commonest of jewels (Matthew 7:6;...
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STREET
(Revelation 22:2); cf: (Revelation 3:4)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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1 Kings 6:20; Isaiah 60:17; Isaiah 60:18; Matthew 13:45; Matthew 13:
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Pearls [μ α ρ γ α ρ ι τ α ι]. The pearl seems to have been
known from the earliest times to the Asiatic Greeks, in consequence of
their intercourse with the Persians. Among the motives which impelled...
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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