Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 22:5 - 22:5

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 22:5 - 22:5


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Shall be night no more (nux ouk estai eti). As in Rev 21:25.

They need (echousin chreian). Present active indicative, “They have need,” though A has hexousin (shall have), future like estai. Here again there is repetition of part of Rev 21:23, but for the purpose of showing the delightsomeness of the New Jerusalem with no need of lamp or sun (change to phōs with hēliou instead of phōtos, “they have no light of sun”).

Shall give them light (phōtisei). Future active of phōtizō, while aorist ephōtisen in Rev 21:23.

They shall reign (basileusousin). Future active of basileuō. Reign eternally in contrast with the limited millennial reign of Rev 20:4, Rev 20:6. This glorious eternal reign with Christ occurs repeatedly in the book (Rev 1:6; Rev 3:21; Rev 5:10) as in Luk 22:30. Christ’s Kingdom is spiritual (Joh 18:36.). “The visions of the Apocalypse are now ended; they have reached their climax in the New Jerusalem” (Swete). Now John gives the parting utterances of some of the speakers, and it is not always clear who is speaking.