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.
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Gill's Exposition
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,.... This vision relates to a glorious state of the church, not in the times of the apostles, or first dispensation of the Gospel; when the old Jewish church…
Barnes' Notes
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth - Such a heaven and earth that they might properly be called new; such transformations, and such changes in their appearance, that they seemed to be just…
Adam Clarke
A new heaven and a new earth - See the notes on Pe2 3:13 : The ancient Jews believed that God would renew the heavens and the earth at the end of seven thousand years. The general supposition they…
We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state.
I. A new world now opens to our view (Rev…
Cambridge Bible
The New Heaven and Earth. Chap. Rev 21:1
1. a new heaven and a new earth Isa 65:17; Isa 66:22; referred to, as here, in 2Pe 3:13. It is idle to ask, what amount of change in the physical constitution…
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