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And the city - The houses, was of pure gold.Ģ1:19 And the foundations were adorned with precious stones - That is, beautifully made of them. The measures, therefore, above mentioned are real and determinate.Ģ1:18 And the building of the wall was jasper - That is, the wall was built of jasper.
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The gold, the pearls, the precious stones, the walls, foundations, gates, are undoubtedly figurative expressions seeing the city itself is in glory, and the inhabitants of it have spiritual bodies: yet these spiritual bodies are also real bodies, and the city is an abode distinct from its inhabitants, and proportioned to them who take up a finite and a determinate space. In treating of all these things a deep reverence is necessary and so is a measure of spiritual wisdom that we may neither understand them too literally and grossly, nor go too far from the natural force of the words. The reed therefore was as great as was the stature of that human form in which the angel appeared. John saw the measuring angel in an human shape. It is said, the measure of a man that is, of an angel because St. The twelve thousand furlongs, being spoken absolutely, without any explanation, are common, human furlongs: the hundred forty - four reeds are not of common human length, but of angelic, abundantly larger than human. This is exactly the same height, only expressed in a different manner.
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The city is twelve thousand furlongs high the wall, an hundred and forty - four reeds. But what inconsiderable villages were all these compared to the new Jerusalem! By this measure is understood the greatness of the city, with the exact order and just proportion of every part of it to show, figuratively, that this city was prepared for a great number of inhabitants, how small soever the number of real Christians may sometimes appear to be and that everything relating to the happiness of that state was prepared with the greatest order and exactness. Nineveh is reported to have been four hundred furlongs round Babylon four hundred and eighty. Jerusalem was thirtythree furlongs in circumference Alexandria thirty in length, ten in breadth. Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.Īnd he mat the wallis of it, of an hundrid and `foure and fourti cubitis, bi mesure of man, that is, of an aungel.Īnd he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger Ģ1:15 And he measured the city, twelve thousand furlongs - Not in circumference, but on each of the four sides. King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible ScanĪnd he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, Īnd he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, `according to' the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.Īnd he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.Īnd he measured its wall, a hundred forty-four cubits, man's measure, that is, angel's.Īnd he measured the wall of it a hundred and forty four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.Īnd he measured the wall of it-a wall of a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to human measure, which was also that of the angel. ▲ View ChapterĪnd he measured the wall thereof, an hundred, and fourtie, and foure cubites, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel. The first foundation was jasper the second, sapphire the third, a chalcedony the fourth, an emerald 20The fifth, sardonyx the sixth, sardius the seventh, chrysolite the eighth, beryl the ninth, a topaz the tenth, a chrysoprasus the eleventh, a jacinth the twelfth, an amethyst. 19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. 18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. 15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.