15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
A. The angel who was serving as John’s guide asked him to measure the city, the gates and the wall.
B. The measurements are made with a golden reed. The measurements are figurative and not to be taken as literal.
Verse Revelation 21:15. _HAD A GOLDEN REED_] Several excellent MSS. add μετρον, a _measure_; he had a _measuring rod made of gold_. This account of measuring the city seems to be copied, with variatio...
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME - The angel, Revelation 21:9. HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY - See the notes on Revelation 11:1. The reed, or measuring rod, here, is of gold, because all about the c...
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(_b_) THE MEASURING OF THE CITY. Revelation 21:9. seven bowls: _ cf._ ch. 16. Revelation 21:10. to a mountain: as in Ezekiel 40:2....
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GOLDEN REED, &C. The texts add _metron_ here, as Revelation 21:17, and read "for. measure". TO. in order that. Greek. _hina._ MEASURE. he might measure....
_a golden reed_ So Revelation 11:1; this is more closely parallel to Ezekiel 40:3; Ezekiel 40:5. See also Zechariah 2:1. _the gates_ A
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THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
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And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. HAD A GOLDEN REED. So Coptic; but 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, read, 'had (as) a m...
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Cp. Ezekiel 40:3....
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THE MEASUREMENT OF THE CITY. (15) AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME... — Or, better, _And he who was talking with me had a golden reed..._ The allusion here is to the angel mentioned in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 15:3...
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The measures of the city are now taken, as in Ezekiel 40:3; Ezekiel 40:48; Ezekiel 42:16 f., to elucidate the vision (otherwise in Revelation 1
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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...
In Revelation 11:1, John had been given a reed, to measure the temple of God with, that was basically a stick. Here an angel measures the city of God in heaven with a golden reed. Measuring the city c...
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AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME,.... One of the seven angels, Revelation 21:9 for not a man is the measurer of this city, as in Ezekiel 40:3 nor John, as of the temple, Revelation 11:1 but an angel, the
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_And he that talked with me had_ Like the angel who appeared in vision to Ezekiel; _a golden reed_, &c. A measuring-rod, with this circumstance of illustrious distinction, that it was golden; _to meas...
The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY AND THE GATES THEREOF AND THE WALL THEREOF....
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Revelation 21:15 And G2532 talked G2980 (G5723) with G3326 me G1700 had G2192 (G5707) gold G5552 reed...
‘And he who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city and its gates and its wall. And the city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth, and he measured the c...
Revelation 21:15. The city is to be measured, in order that its noble and fair proportions may be seen. The angel measures it with A GOLDEN REED, the metal of the reed corresponding in dignity and val...
HAD (ειχεν). Regular imperfect here, no longer εχων.FOR A MEASURE A GOLDEN REED (μετρον καλαμον χρυσουν). See Revelation 11:1 for καλαμος (reed). Μετρον is an old word, kin to μητηρ (mother, mould...
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 21:15 MEASURING ROD OF GOLD. See Ezekiel 40:3. The city’s length and width and height are equal
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_15 AND HE THAT TALKED WITH ME HAD A GOLDEN REED TO MEASURE THE CITY, AND THE GATES THEREOF, AND THE WALL THEREOF._ _ 16 AND THE CITY LIETH FOURSQUARE, AND THE LENGTH IS AS LARGE AS THE BREADTH: AN...
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Exodus 40:3; Ezekiel 41:1; Revelation 11:1; Revelation 11:2; Zec
A golden reed. Add metron as a measure. See ch. Revelation 11:1. Compare Ezekiel 40:5....
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