Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 21:9-10
John’s guide to the city 21:9-10 read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 21:10
John entered a fresh state of prophetic ecstasy and saw a new vision (cf. Revelation 1:10; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 17:3). The angel took him to a high vantage point from which he could see the New Jerusalem (lit. city of peace) descending out of heaven from God (cf. Revelation 21:2; Ezekiel 40:2). John received a fresh revelation that expanded something he had already witnessed in an earlier scene (Revelation 21:2-8; cf. Revelation 16:19; Revelation 17:1)."The holy city descending from God... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 21:11
This city obviously appeared extremely impressive to John. The first and most important characteristic that John noted was its radiant glow. It shone with the splendor of God Himself because He was in it (cf. Exodus 40:34; Numbers 9:15-23; 1 Kings 8:11; 2 Chronicles 5:14; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 60:1; Ezekiel 43:5; John 12:41; Acts 26:13).John compared the glory of the city to that of a beautiful gem. Jasper stones were very beautiful but not always clear. As mentioned earlier (cf. Revelation... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 21:11-22
The physical features of the city 21:11-22 read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Revelation 21:11
21:11 shining (c-7) 'Lightbearer' (used for heavenly luminaries), but here it would seem in general 'brightness' or 'shining.' 'She was the lightbearer,' 'she as a lightbearer was.' Elsewhere used only Philippians 2:15 . read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1-27
The Holy CityThe 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 heaven, in which the Lamb’s redeemed people will dwell for ever.1-8. The eternal dwelling-place prepared for the redeemed is seen from a distance (Revelation 21:1.), and the voice of God declares what it means (Revelation 21:3-6), and for whom its glories are (Revelation 21:7.).Three points come out... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 21:10
(10) And he carried me away in the spirit . . .—Better, He carried me away in spirit on to a mountain, great and high. It is not merely that the height gives a fine view-ground, the symbolism carries us further. The glimpse of God’s coming glories is best gained from the consecrated heights of self-surrender and prayer. On a mountain apart—the mountain of supplication and separation from the world—is the light and glory of God best seen. There are Beulah heights and transfiguration heights from... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 21:11
(11) Having the glory of God . . .—The glory of God is the glorious presence of God, the true Shechinah, of which we have read before (Revelation 15:8, and see Revelation 21:23). The light of the city is described: And her light (or, brightness: it is the light which she gives; the same word is used as that employed in the LXX., Genesis 1:17, for the heavenly bodies) is like a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone crystallising. On the meaning and appearance of this stone, see Note on... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 21:1-27
Revelation 21:1 While I think of it, why is the sea (in that apologue of Attar once quoted by Falconer) supposed to have lost God? Did the Persians agree with something I remember in Plato about the sea and all in it being of an inferior nature, in spite of Homer's 'Divine ocean,' etc. Fitzgerald's Letters, I. p. 320. Revelation 21:1 Will not one of the properties of the spiritual body be, that it will be able to express that which the natural body only tries to express? Is this a sensual view... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 21:11
11. Having the glory of God—not merely the Shekinah-cloud, but God Himself as her glory dwelling in the midst of her. Compare the type, the earthly Jerusalem in the millennium (Zechariah 2:5; compare Zechariah 2:5- :, below). her light—Greek, "light-giver": properly applied to the heavenly luminaries which diffuse light. Compare Note, see on Zechariah 2:5- :, the only other passage where it occurs. The "and" before "her light' is omitted in A, B, and Vulgate. even like—Greek, "as it were."... read more