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Having a wall great and high (echousa teichos mega kai hupsēlon). John returns, after the parenthesis in Rev 21:11, to the structure in Rev 21:10, only to use the accusative echousan as before to agree with polin, but the nominative echousa as again with “twelve gates” (pulōnas dōdeka). Pulōn is an old word (from pulē gate) for a large gate as in Luk 16:20 and six times in Rev for the gate tower of a city wall (Rev 21:12, Rev 21:13, Rev 21:15, Rev 21:21, Rev 21:25; Rev 22:14) as in 1Ki 17:10; Act 14:13. See Eze 48:31. for these twelve gates, one for each tribe (cf. Rev 7:1-8).
At the gates (epi tois pulōsin). “Upon the gate towers.”
Twelve angels (aggelous dōdeka). As pulōroi or phulakes according to Isa 62:6; 2Ch 8:14.
Names written thereon (onomata epigegrammena). Perfect passive participle of epigraphō.
Which are the names (ha estin). Just as in Ezekiel’s vision (Eze 48:31.), so here the names of the twelve tribes of Israel appear, one on each gate.