27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. …
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
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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