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Rev_21:9-10. Δεῦρο , κ . τ . λ . The uniformity of the description makes prominent the contrast with the judgment presented to view (Rev_17:1).[4283]
τὴν νύμφην , τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀρνίου . It belongs to the contrast with the woman representing the worldly city, that here the holy city, wherein the holy Church of God dwells, appears as the bride, the wife belonging to the Lamb.[4284]
ἀπήνεγκέν -g0- με -g0-. Cf. Rev_17:3; Eze_40:2.
μέγα -g0- καὶ -g0- ὑψηλὸν -g0-. “Great” in circumference must the mountain be in proportion to its height; but the height assures the seer of the complete view of the city spread out before him, which at all events does not lie upon the mountain.[4285]
καταβαίνουσαν , κ . τ . λ . Hengstenb.[4286] finds that described here for the first time in proper terms which previously designated, by way of introduction, Rev_21:2; but Rev_21:10 cannot have the same relation to Rev_21:2 as, e.g., ch. 15 Rev_21:5 has to Rev_21:1, for, in this connection, already at Rev_21:2 reference was made to the descending Jerusalem. The scene is thus to be regarded in the way that the descending of the city (Rev_21:2), which gives occasion for the speeches of Rev_21:3-8, has already begun, but Rev_21:10 proceeds further, so that, while the city is sinking down from heaven to earth, and here finds its place, John is carried by the angel to the mountain, and thence gazes upon the city now found upon earth.
[4283] Cf. Ewald.
[4284] Cf. Rev_21:2; Rev_19:7.
[4285] Against Hengstenb. and Luthardt.
[4286] On Rev_21:1.