Revelation 21:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. ”

• Revelation 21:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 al...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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 f...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 presen...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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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• Revelation 21:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 - Several excellent MSS. add μετρον, a measure; he had a measuring rod...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 (a...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 glo...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 ( Ezeki...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1-27 ; Revelation 22:1-5 . THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. W...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Holy City” Revelation 21:9-27 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 tha...

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• Revelation 21:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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 ea...

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• Revelation 21:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 an...

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• Revelation 21:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ear...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The New Jerusalem. A. D.  95.       9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 11:1-19 , now by an angel; then by an ordinary reed, now...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Revelation 21:10-23 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 wa...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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, sev...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Revelation 21:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 over...

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• Revelation 21:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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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• Revelation 21:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 40:3-5 ; Ezekiel 41:1 ; Revelation 11:1 ; Revelation 11:2 ; Zechariah 2:1

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• Revelation 21:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Marriage of the Lamb Revelation 19:1-10 ; Revelation 21:1-27 and Revelation 22:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diff...

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• Revelation 21:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 br...

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