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- Chapter 21
- Verse 22
And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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Gill's Exposition
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it,.... Which may be understood either literally of these two luminaries, which all earthly cities need; and which, though they may…
Barnes' Notes
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, where…
Adam Clarke
I saw no temple - There was no need of a temple where God and the Lamb were manifestly present.
We have already considered the introduction to the vision of the new Jerusalem in a more general idea of the heavenly state; we now come to the vision itself, where observe,
I. The person that opened…
Cambridge Bible
The Temple, the Light, the Riches, and the Inhabitants of the City, Rev 21:22-27
22. And I saw no temple The New Jerusalem is on earth though on the newearth: this does not therefore prove that the…
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