Revelation 21:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. ”

• Revelation 21:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And I saw no temple therein - No structure reared expressly for the worship of God; no particular place where he was adored. It was all temple - nothing but a temple. It was not like Jerusalem, w...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Temple. Last occurance of the word. therein . in (Greek. en) it. Almighty. App-98. Temple of it. This shows clearly that the wonders and glories revealed here belong to post-millennial ti...

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• Revelation 21:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2530 GOD THE LIGHT AND TEMPLE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM Revelation 21:22-23 . I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need...

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• Revelation 21:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. I saw no temple - There was no need of a temple where God and the Lamb were manifestly present.

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. No temple ... God ... the temple. As God now dwells in the spiritual Church, His "temple" х naos...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And I saw no temple therein... — Rather, And temple I saw not in it, for the Lord God the Almighty is her temple, and the Lamb. In Ezekiel’s vision the vast and splendid proportions of the Temple...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I saw no temple therein ,.... No material temple, as was in the old Jerusalem, or such as is described in Ezekiel's vision; nor any place of public worship, as under the Gospel dispensation; for...

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• Revelation 21:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. Ver. 22. No temple ] No need of external worships and ordinances; for they are all taught of God; they se...

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• Revelation 21:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I saw no temple therein The whole city being, properly speaking, a temple; the Lord God and the Lamb surrounding, filling, and sanctifying the whole, and being more intimately present in ever...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And I saw no temple therein: I cannot take temple so strictly here, as those who understand all this but as a description of the blessed state of the militant church, during the thousand years; b...

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• Revelation 21:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And I saw no Temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its Temple. And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God did lighten it and it...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - 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 21:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

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• Revelation 21:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:27 ; 2 Chronicles 2:6 ; 2 Chronicles 6:18 ; Colossians 1:19 ; Colossians 2:9 ; Hebrews 9:1-12 ; Isaiah 66:1 ; John 10:30 ; John 2:19-21 ; John 4:23 ; Revelation 1:8 ; Revelation...

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• Revelation 21:22 - 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 21:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The Lord God and the Lamb are the temple of it — He fills the new heaven and the new earth. He surrounds the city and sanctifies it, and all that are therein. He is "all in all."

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