Text -- Revelation 21:12 (NET)

21:12 It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rev 21:12

¹ tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.

² tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”

³ tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”

⁴ tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.

⁵ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.