And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
A new universe opens before us: not newly fashioned, but newly revealed and filled with heirs at last claiming their own. The glorified bodies of the saints will themselves be spiritual and heavenly, fitted for those bright mansions. All the old world's tumult and sorrow passes away to make room for this perfection.
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Commenting on Revelation 21:1-8
And I John saw the holy city,.... The same with the beloved city in Rev 20:9 the church of God: sometimes the church militant is called a city, of which the saints are now fellow citizens, governed by wholesome laws, and enjoying many privileges; but here the general assembly and church of the firstborn, or all the elect of God, are intended, the whole body...
Verse 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. On the phrase "new Jerusalem," ; . Here it refers to the residence of the redeemed, the heavenly world, of which Jerusalem was the type and symbol.