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Text -- Revelation 21:18-27 (NET)
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21:18 The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold , like transparent glass .
21:19 The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone . The first foundation is jasper , the second sapphire , the third agate , the fourth emerald ,
21:20 the fifth onyx , the sixth carnelian , the seventh chrysolite , the eighth beryl , the ninth topaz , the tenth chrysoprase , the eleventh jacinth , and the twelfth amethyst .
21:21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl ! The main street of the city is pure gold , like transparent glass .
21:22 Now I saw no temple in the city , because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple .
21:23 The city does not need need the sun or the moon to shine on it , because the glory of God lights it up , and its lamp is the Lamb .
21:24 The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it .
21:25 Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there ).
21:26 They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it ,
21:27 but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it , nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood , but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Vision |
Jerusalem |
REVELATION OF JOHN |
Readings, Select |
CANDLESTICK, THE GOLDEN |
HEAVENS, NEW (AND EARTH, NEW) |
CITIZENSHIP |
Church |
Heaven |
STONES, PRECIOUS |
Jasper |
Glory |
Glass |
Light |
Walls |
NUMBER |
GATE |
Chalcedony |
Jesus, The Christ |
Emerald |
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NET Notes -> Rev 21:18; Rev 21:18; Rev 21:18; Rev 21:19; Rev 21:19; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:20; Rev 21:21; Rev 21:21; Rev 21:22; Rev 21:22; Rev 21:24; Rev 21:24; Rev 21:25; Rev 21:25; Rev 21:25; Rev 21:26; Rev 21:26; Rev 21:27; Rev 21:27; Rev 21:27; Rev 21:27; Rev 21:27
NET Notes: Rev 21:18 Or “transparent crystal.” See L&N 6.222, which notes the emphasis is on transparency here. The same Greek word, καθ^...
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NET Notes: Rev 21:19 Agate (also called chalcedony) is a semiprecious stone usually milky or gray in color (L&N 2.32).
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NET Notes: Rev 21:20 Jacinth is a semiprecious stone, probably blue in color (also called “hyacinth,” but that translation is not used here because of possible...
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NET Notes: Rev 21:22 On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (O...
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NET Notes: Rev 21:26 Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).
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