The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments Volume 31; Revelation of St. John

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...Cf. Sanh. 100: "Rabbi Jochanan sat one day and preached: One day will the Holy One--blessed be He--bring precious stones and pearls thirty cubits long by thirty cubits broad and excavate (openings) in them of ten cubits (in breadth and) twenty cubits in height, and they shall stand in the gates of Jerusalem ": cf. also Baba Bathra 75b. 6va ets Ikootos. This is a " barbaric " construction: cf. Matt. xxvi. 22, etc. For this distributive use of avd cf. iv. 8, John ii. 6; but the avd is here an adverb, not a preposition. In Kaff tU in Mark xiv. 19, Rom. xii. 5 the Koto is an adverb also (Robertson, pp. 460, 555). A somewhat parallel construction is found in Eph. v. 33, Kaff cva Jkootos (Blass, p. 179). iij irXaTcia. Probably to be taken generically "the streets," as $v.ov £(orjs in xxii. 2. xpuvtav Ka.Qa.p6v. The whole city is described as "pure gold" in ver. 18. At JaXos Siauyfc. This may be rendered either "transparent as glass" or "as it were transparent glass." The latter is decidedly weak, but either is admissible: cf. i. 14, iv. 6, ix. 9, xv. 2, xxii. 1. Siauyijs is found only here in the N.T. and not at all in the LXX. It occurs in Philo, Lucian, Plutarch, Apollonius Rhodius. 22. In the Holy City there would be no temple (see note on vii. 15), nor ark of the covenant--the restoration of which was so eagerly looked for by the Jews; for that the Lord God would be the Temple thereof and the Lamb the Ark of the Covenant thereof. The absolute destruction of the earthly temple was foretold by our Lord, Mark xiii. 2; John iv. 21; but even the heavenly temple so often referred to in the earlier chapters would have no place as the Heavenly Jerusalem. This verse like those which precede and follow it...