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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 21:10 - 21:10
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The words correspond to Rev 17:3, to heighten the contrast of the bride and harlot.
mountain - Compare Eze 40:2, where a similar vision is given from a high mountain.
that great - omitted in A, B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and Cyprian. Translate then, “the holy city Jerusalem.”
descending - Even in the millennium the earth will not be a suitable abode for transfigured saints, who therefore shall then reign in heaven over the earth. But after the renewal of the earth at the close of the millennium and judgment, they shall descend from heaven to dwell on an earth assimilated to heaven itself. “From God” implies that “we (the city) are God’s workmanship.”