Revelation Chapter 21 verse 18 Holy Bible
And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
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And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.
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And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:
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And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
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The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
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and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city `is' pure gold -- like to pure glass;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass; pure glass. The exceeding brightness and purity is the idea contained in both expressions - the light of ver. 11, which is there associated with jasper and crystal. (On "jasper," see on ver. 11 and Revelation 4:3.) The whole description is, of course, typical, not literal.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersTHE BUILDING OR MATERIAL OF THE CITY.(18) And the building of the wall . . .--Or, And the building-work (or, the masonry, so Alford) of the wall of it was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like pure glass. The general aspect of the city was jasperlike, because the material of the wall was of the jasper stone. On this stone, see Note on Revelation 4:3, and on Revelation 21:11 above. The city was gold. On the meaning of the gold see Note on Revelation 21:15 and on Revelation 3:18. To what has been said may be added the following:--"Gold has an inalienable reference to the sun itself, consequently, to the symbol of the face of God, or Christ, i.e., to the manifestation of God's love" (Lange).The wealth of heaven is love; love is the circulating medium of all holy activity and of all holy work: all who dwell within the heavenly city are encompassed by it; all who tread the streets of that city move along the ways of love; no dimness or obscuring motives of self-interest mar its lustre--the gold is clear as pure glass.
