15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
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I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. …
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. …
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-27)We have already considered the introduction to the vision of the new Jerusalem in a more general idea of the heavenly state; we now come to the vision itself, where observe, I. The person that opened the vision to the apostle— one of the seven angels, that had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues , Rev. 21:9. God has a variety of work and employment for his holy angels. Sometimes they ar…
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