Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
God's character seals this book: He is faithful and true, and He would never send His holy angels to deceive His saints with mere dreams. That the angel refused John's worship, reproved him for it, and the apostle confesses his own relapse into folly shows a sincerity no deceiver would display. The book stands open for all to study, compare, and test against what comes to pass.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 22:6-19
For without are dogs,.... That is, without the holy city are such persons who are comparable to dogs for their filthiness, impudence, and voraciousness, as are persecutors, heretics, and apostates, Mat 7:6. Some think Sodomites are intended, as in Deu 23:18.
Verse 15. For without are dogs. The wicked, the depraved, the vile: for of such characters the dogs, an unclean animal among the Jews, was regarded as a symbol, . On the meaning of the expression, . The word "without" means that they would not be admitted into the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, . And sorcerers, etc. All these characters are specified in , as excluded from heaven. .