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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 21:1-27

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 lime, and iron, and sulpher. Geologists have counted two hundred craters which ventilate the earth, and send their fires to the skies. The animal kingdom is gradually becoming extinct. When we survey the organic remains of a former world, we ask, where do their successors live, the terrific... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 21:27

Revelation 21:27There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth.The barrierI. The word of exclusion. This is no arbitrary decree, it is a solemn declaration to which all holy spirits give their willing assent and consent; an ordinance of which even the excluded themselves shall admit the justice.1. For, first, it is not meet that so royal and divine a corporation as the glorified Church of God should be ruined by defilement. God forbid that “her light, which is like unto a stone... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 21:27

27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Ver. 27. And there shall in no wise ] Though the serpent could wind himself into paradise, yet no unclean person can come into this holy city. Tertullian called Pompey’s theatre (which was the greatest ornament of old Rome) arcem omnium turpitudinum, the sty of all uncleanness. Heaven is none such. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 21:27

there: Leviticus 13:46, Numbers 5:3, Numbers 12:15, Psalms 101:8, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 60:21, Joel 3:17, Matthew 13:41, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:19-Ecclesiastes :, Ephesians 5:5, Hebrews 12:14 worketh: Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:5 or maketh: Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:14, Revelation 22:15 they: Revelation 3:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Philippians 4:3 Reciprocal: Exodus 28:36 - HOLINESS Exodus 32:32 - blot me... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 21:27

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.Common — That is. unholy.But those who are written in the Lamb's book of life — True, holy, persevering believers. This blessedness is enjoyed by those only; and, as such, they are registered among them who are to inherit eternal life. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:27

27. But open as are these gates, there is a terrible yet salutary exclusion. As this city is glorious in structure, and most gloriously lighted, so its society is pure. Any thing that defileth No filthy object shall disgust the sense, or spread miasms through the pure atmosphere. Whatsoever Rather, no person, as the change to the masculine implies, that worked abomination or flagitious vice. The elegant debauchee is not admitted into good society. No author of any baseness of any... read more