REVELATION 21 PARALLEL KJV AND GREEK BIBLE (NEW Verse 6 commends these sayings afresh. The common notion, therefore, that the coming of the Lord is at this point is an evident fallacy upon the face of this scripture that describes it, not to speak of others elsewhere. The cube was the symbol of perfection. Had he really penetrated under the surface, and seen that beneath the fair guise of Christendom the woman was, of all things under the sun, the most corrupt and hateful to God, it would not be so much to be surprised at. Exodus 20:13-17; cf. Babylon must hear, I do not doubt, the final testimony of God the gospel of the kingdom that is to go forth in the last days; but she loves her pleasure and power, and refuses truth. It cannot be done till the moment comes. But there is one curious point. Behold, I am doing a new thing" ( Isaiah 43:18-19). Since the lake of fire still exists after the passing of the present heaven and earth, hell is probably not in the center of the present earth nor is it connected to this earth spacially. 21:8 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort 1881 , . As for the earthly land and city, the moon will have her light increased to that of the sun, and the sun shall be sevenfold. For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. But far from that he has, on the contrary, persevered in the same evil course, as badly or worse than his father. "To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life." 3. The jacinth is described by ancient writers as being a violet, bluish-purple stone. Reference-Verse. This is known so well, and on such decided grounds, that it would be unbecoming to withhold the fact. If a person drew from this, for instance, that the boast was to carry the woman, Babylon, when it had as a fact all that is meant by the seven heads and the ten horns, it would be an error. Hence the horns and the beast join together and desolate the harlot. The Ascension of Moses (10: 6) says that the sea will return into the abyss. 4. In short, Babylon, the disgusting counterpart of the holy city, in earthly ambition seeks the kings and the masses for her own present objects, while the other suffers now and will reign then. Pliny describes it as shining with a golden radiance. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband ( Revelation 21:2 ). This it is precisely which will bring out the indignant judgment of God upon the last phase of Babylon, so that the guilt of all the blood shed on the earth shall be imputed to her, and she may be judged accordingly. Take this quite simply and literally. In fact, we may say, all nations will be desolated by judgments of one kind or another; but for all this the world proceeding for a thousand years with every outward blessing, and the most admirable government administered by the blessed Lord Himself, will issue in the teeming and prosperous races of mankind. "And the dead were judged," but not out of the book of life, which has nothing to do with judgment. They did not possess the compass; and, therefore, as far as possible, they coasted along the shores. The Syriac and Arabic versions express it by two words, "sinners and polluted", filthy sinners; the character well agrees with Babylon, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, and to all that adhere to her, and join with her in her abominable idolatries.