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Revelation
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I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. See also: Isaiah 65:17-192 Peter 3:13Isaiah 66:22I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. See also: Hebrews 11:10Revelation 3:12Revelation 21:10I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. See also: Ezekiel 37:272 Corinthians 6:16Leviticus 26:11-12He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.” See also: Isaiah 25:8Revelation 7:171 Corinthians 15:26He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” See also: 2 Corinthians 5:17Isaiah 42:9Isaiah 43:19He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. See also: John 7:37-38John 4:10Revelation 7:17He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. See also: 2 Corinthians 6:18Hebrews 8:10Revelation 2:11But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” See also: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10Revelation 2:11Ephesians 5:5-6One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” See also: Revelation 19:7Revelation 21:2Revelation 16:1-17He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, See also: Revelation 21:2Ezekiel 11:242 Corinthians 12:2-4having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; See also: Revelation 22:5Revelation 4:6Revelation 22:1having a great and high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. See also: Ezekiel 48:31-34Revelation 21:17-21Revelation 7:4-8On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. See also: Ezekiel 48:31-34The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. See also: Hebrews 11:10Ephesians 2:20Isaiah 54:11He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. See also: Zechariah 2:1Revelation 11:1-2Ezekiel 41:1-5The city is square. Its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal. See also: Ezekiel 48:8-20Ezekiel 48:35Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. See also: Deuteronomy 3:11Revelation 13:18Revelation 21:9The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. See also: Revelation 21:11Revelation 21:21Revelation 21:19The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, See also: Isaiah 54:11-12Exodus 28:17-21Job 28:16-19the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. See also: Revelation 4:3The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. See also: Revelation 21:18Revelation 17:4Revelation 22:2I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. See also: John 4:232 Chronicles 2:61 Kings 8:27The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb. See also: Isaiah 60:19-20Revelation 22:5Revelation 21:11The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. See also: Revelation 21:26Revelation 22:2Zechariah 8:22-23Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there), See also: Isaiah 60:11Zechariah 14:7Revelation 22:5and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter. See also: Revelation 21:24There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. See also: Revelation 22:14-15Isaiah 52:1Revelation 20:15
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
From the seventh verse of the foregoing chapter, begins as it were the third part of the Apocalypse containing the coming of antichrist, the great day of judgment, the punishment of the wicked, and the eternal happiness of God's elect in heaven, or in the celestial Jerusalem, which S. John describes in this chapter as if it were like a large city, beautified and enriched with gold and all manner of precious stones, &c. Wi.
Revelation 21:1
Ver. 1. New, by their form and qualities, but not by their substance. — The first heaven and first earth was passed away: being changed, not as to their substance, but in their qualities. Ch.
↑ 1Revelation 21:2
Ver. 2. Coming down from God out of heaven. By the city we must understand its citizens, the Angels and saints. Wi. — Justice, innocence, the good works of the saints, are the ornaments of the inhabitants of this new Jerusalem, the Church triumphant. If the world of the old Adam has appeared so beautiful, so magnificent, good God, what will be the riches of that which is made for Jesus Christ, the second Adam, and for his members! O Jesus! Father of the world to come, render us worthy of this new and everlasting world, and give us a disgust, a mortal hatred, for that which perishes, and which is the cause of our perdition.
↑ 2Revelation 21:3
Ver. 3. Behold the tabernacle of God with men, inasmuch as God's elect shall there dwell with him for ever and ever. Wi.
↑ 3Revelation 21:6
Ver. 6. It is done. The state of Christ's Church on earth, and in this world, is now finished; and the time is come to reward the good, and to punish the wicked in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, in hell, with the devils for all eternity. Wi. — This living water is God himself, of which the saints shall be inebriated at the source; i.e. in God himself. Enviable moment, when all the designs of God upon Jesus Christ and upon his Church will be accomplished: but how little thought of now! And how can we hope to be inebriated at this source of God above, if we do not aspire after it whilst we are in this dreary desert here below? He who begins and finishes gratuitously here below the work of our faith, crowns it still more liberally in heaven.
↑ 6Revelation 21:9
Ver. 9. I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb: all the Church triumphant in heaven. Wi.
↑ 9Revelation 21:16
Ver. 16. The city is situate four-square;[1] and by what follows, so as to be a perfect square, though every thing that is quadrangular is not always a square, or perfect square. Wi.
↑ 16Revelation 21:17
Ver. 17. The measure of a man, which is of an Angel.[2] This seems, without doubt, the sense of it. Wi.
↑ 17Revelation 21:22
Ver. 22. No temple in it. No need of a temple for divine worship, where God is in such a perfect manner present to all the blessed, where nothing can distract or divert their souls from endless adorations, praises, &c. Wi.
↑ 22Revelation 21:23
Ver. 23. Needeth not sun nor moon, where there is no vicissitude or succession of day and night, the divine brightness always shining to them. Wi.
↑ 23Revelation 21:24
Ver. 24. The kings of the earth shall bring their glory; the elect, of all states and conditions, shall now be exalted like kings, or rather infinitely above the glory that we can imagine of any kings in this world. Wi.
↑ 24Revelation 21:27
Ver. 27. There shall not enter it any thing defiled. This is what we ought always to remember and have in our minds. Wi.
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[1] V. 16. In quadro, tetragonos, quadrangularis.
[2] V. 17. Mensura hominis, quæ est Angeli; metron anthropou, o estin aggelou.
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↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses