22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
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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