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There shall in no wise enter into it (ou mē eiselthēi eis autēn). Double negative again with the second aorist active subjunctive of eiserchomai with eis repeated. Like Isa 52:1; Eze 44:9.
Anything unclean (pān koinon). Common use of pān with negative like ouden, and the use of koinos for defiled or profane as in Mar 7:2; Act 10:14, not just what is common to all (Tit 1:4).
Or he that (kai ho). “And he that.”
Maketh an abomination and a lie (poiōn bdelugma kai pseudos). Like Babylon (Rev 17:4 which see for bdelugma) and Rev 21:8 for those in the lake of fire and brimstone, and Rev 22:15 for “every one loving and doing a lie.” These recurrent glimpses of pagan life on earth and of hell in contrast to heaven in this picture raise the question already mentioned whether John is just running parallel pictures of heaven and hell after the judgment or whether, as Charles says: “The unclean and the abominable and the liars are still on earth, but, though the gates are open day and night, they cannot enter.” In apocalyptic writing literalism and chronology cannot be insisted on as in ordinary books. The series of panoramas continue to the end.
But only they which are written (ei mē hoi gegrammenoi). “Except those written.” For “the book of life” see Rev 3:5; Rev 13:8; Rev 20:15. Cf. Dan 12:1.