Verse 15
15. Therefore In the next three verses we have a brief, exquisite glimpse of a heavenly pastoral, where the redeemed are the sheep and the Lamb is the shepherd. The passage is cognate with 21 and 22, describing the final heaven of the blessed. It is, indeed, said in 21 that there is no temple, as is here mentioned; but it is said, Revelation 21:22, that the Lamb is the temple. The present passage might be congenially inserted between Revelation 22:21 and Revelation 22:22. With regard to the symbolic numbers of this passage Hengstenberg says: “The delineation of the blessedness is completed in a threefold three: they are before the throne, they serve, they are tented; they hunger not, they thirst not, they suffer no heat; the Lamb feeds them, leads them, wipes their tears.”
Therefore Because of their purification through the sacrificial blood.
Before the throne of God And not driven from his presence into the “lake of fire,” Revelation 20:15, the awful reverse of the celestial state.
Serve him… in his temple As Stuart well explains, they are made priests unto God, and the ordinary phraseology regarding priests, they serve day and night in the temple, is applied to them.
Shall dwell among them Literally, Greek, shall spread tent (or tabernacle) over them. Perhaps the meaning is, shall spread himself as tent over them.
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