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Verse Revelation 21:16. _THE CITY LIETH FOURSQUARE_] Each side was
equal, consequently the length and breadth were equal; and its
_height_ is here said to be equal to its length. It is hard to say ho...
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AND THE CITY LIETH FOUR-SQUARE - It was an exact square. That is,
there was nothing irregular about it; there were no crooked walls;
there was no jutting out, and no indentation in the walls, as if th...
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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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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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(_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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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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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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FURLONGS. Greek. _stadion._ See Revelation 14:20 and App-51.
LENGTH... EQUAL. The "holy city" is presented to us as. perfect cube
of 12,000 furlongs. In Solomon's Temple "the Holy of Holies" was.
per...
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_he measured the city_ It is doubtful whether this is the measurement
of the _side_of the square, or of the whole circumference. The
twelve-fold measure is in favour of the former view: thus from each...
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THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
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Ἡ ΠΌΛΙΣ. א has αὐτῆς here instead of in the next clause
which 1 omits.
ὌΣΟΝ. Text. Rec[832] and Lach[833] add καὶ with A
Primas[834][832] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.
[833] Lachmann...
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_JOHN IS SHOWN THE NEW JERUSALEM REVELATION 21:9-17:_ The description
of the New Jerusalem had to do with the glory of God. There was
security because of the gates and the walls that were great and hi...
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ΤΕΤΡΆΓΩΝΟΣ (G5068) квадрат,
четырехугольник.
ΚΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΕΊΜΑΙ (G2749)
лежать,
ΜΉΚΟΣ (G3184) длина.
ΠΛΆΤΟΣ (G4114) ширина,
ΈΜΈΤΡΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΕΤΡΈΩ (G3354)
изм...
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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 city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the
breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal....
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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 CITY LIETH FOURSQUARE... — The city is foursquare, because
the length and breadth are equal; but it is added that the height also
is equal to the length and breadth, the city thus presents the...
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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 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 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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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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(14) And the city lieth (b) foursquare, and the length is as large as
the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are...
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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 CITY LIETH FOUR SQUARE,.... To the four corners of the world,
from whence its inhabitants come, and denotes the regularity,
uniformity, perfection, and immovableness of it.
AND THE LENGTH IS...
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And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the
breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal....
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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...
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The measurements and the ornaments of the city:...
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AND THE CITY LIETH FOUR-SQUARE AND THE LENGTH IS AS LARGE AS THE
BREADTH. AND HE MEASURED THE CITY WITH THE REED, TWELVE THOUSAND
FURLONGS. THE LENGTH AND THE BREADTH AND THE HEIGHT OF IT ARE EQUAL....
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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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_ 16 The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its
breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand
furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal._
A. The city...
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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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The church militant, measured by the reed of the word, is unequal in
its parts; some parts of it are purer than others; but in the new
Jerusalem all parts shall be equal in perfection and purity, as a...
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Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third " She said to me, "Lo! do you not see
opposite to you a great tower, built upon the waters, of splendid
square stones? "For the tower was built square[8]...
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Revelation 21:16 G2532 city G4172 out G2749 (G5736) square G5068 G2532
its G846 length G3372 is...
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‘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...
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Revelation 21:16. The city itself is first measured. IT LIETH FOUR
SQUARE... THE LENGTH AND THE BREADTH AND THE HEIGHT OF IT ARE EQUAL.
It was thus a perfect cube; and, remembering the general imagery...
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LIETH FOURSQUARE
(τετραγωνος κειτα). Present middle indicative of
κειμα. The predicate adjective is from τετρα (Aeolic for
τεσσαρες four) and γωνος (γωνια corner, Matthew 6:5)
here only in N.T. As i...
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Revelation 21:16
"The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal." There are
then three directions or dimensions of human life to which we may
fitly give these three names: length, and brea...
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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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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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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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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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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 21:15 MEASURING ROD OF GOLD. See
Ezekiel 40:3. The city’s length and width and height are equal
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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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_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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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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Ezekiel 48:17; Ezekiel 48:18; Ezekiel 48:20; Ezekiel 48:35; E
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Four square [τ ε τ ρ α γ ω ν ο ς]. From tetra four and gwnia
an angle. Only here in the New Testament. Compare Ezekiel 48:16;
Ezekiel 48:20.
Twelve - thousand furlongs [ε π ι σ τ α δ ι ω ν δ ω δ ε
κ...
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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