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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...
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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...
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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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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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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....
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_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_ As it happens, we are not actually told of their
measurement....
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THE MEASURE OF THE CITY...
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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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ΛΑΛΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980)
говорить,
ΕΊΧΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь,
ΜΈΤΡΟΝ (G3358) мера,
ΚΆΛΑΜΟΣ (G2563) тростник, трость (_см._
Revelation 11:1).
ΧΡΥΣΟΎΣ (G5552) зол...
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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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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...
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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
V1 Then I saw a new heaven and a ne...
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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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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 introd...
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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 11:1-2). It turns out to be an enormous quadrilateral cube...
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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 blesse...
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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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(13) And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city,
and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
(13) A transition to a more exquisite description of the parts of the
Church, by fi...
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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 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 a golden reed to measure the city, and
the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Ver. 15. _Had a golden reed_] Not those twelve Trent articles, or any
human invention, b...
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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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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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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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_ 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. T...
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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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This seemeth to signify the transcendency of the state of the church
now, to what it was before; it was then measured by a man, REVELATION
11:1, now by an angel; then by an ordinary reed, now by a gol...
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Revelation 21:15 And G2532 talked G2980 (G5723) with G3326 me G1700
had G2192 (G5707) gold G5552 reed G2563 to G2443 measure G3354 (G5661)
city G4172 G2532 its G846 gates G4440 and G2532 its G846 wall...
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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 21:15. 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...
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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, moul...
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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 21:1. _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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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 re...
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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,
having a cubic shape like the Most Holy Place in the OT sanctuary (1
King...
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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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Exodus 40:3; Ezekiel 41:1; Revelation 11:1; Revelation 11:2; Zechariah
2:1...
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A golden reed. Add metron as a measure. See ch. Revelation 11:1.
Compare Ezekiel 40:5....
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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 difficult to find, in bo...
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And he measured the city, twelve thousand furlongs — Not in
circumference, but on each of the four sides. Jerusalem was
thirtythree furlongs in circumference; Alexandria thirty in length,
ten in bread...
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Still St. John proceeds in the description of the heavenly state, and
the church triumphant in it; this is called A CITY, in respect of its
magnificent building, comely order, and invincible strength;...