Rev 21:9-10 | RWP | e4.org | One of the seven angels ( εις εκ των επτα αγγελων ). As in with the same introduction when the angel made the announcement about the harlot city (Babylon), so here the description of the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, is given by one of the same group of angels who had the seven bowls. Thus the νυμφη (Bride) is placed in sharp contrast with the πορνη (Harlot). The New Jerusalem was briefly presented in verse , but now is pictured at length ( ) in a nearer and clearer vision. The bride the wife of the Lamb ( την νυμφην την γυναικα του αρνιου ). Twice already the metaphor of the Bride has been used ( ; ), here termed "wife" ( γυναικα ), mentioned proleptically as in if the marriage is not yet a reality. For the use of the same metaphor elsewhere in the N.T. see on .

‏ Revelation of John 21:9-10

One of the seven angels ( εις εκ των επτα αγγελων ). As in 17:1 with the same introduction when the angel made the announcement about the harlot city (Babylon), so here the description of the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, is given by one of the same group of angels who had the seven bowls. Thus the νυμφη (Bride) is placed in sharp contrast with the πορνη (Harlot). The New Jerusalem was briefly presented in verse 2, but now is pictured at length (21:9-22:5) in a nearer and clearer vision.

The bride the wife of the Lamb ( την νυμφην την γυναικα του αρνιου ). Twice already the metaphor of the Bride has been used (19:7; 21:2), here termed "wife" ( γυναικα ), mentioned proleptically as in 19:7 if the marriage is not yet a reality. For the use of the same metaphor elsewhere in the N.T. see on 19:7.

He carried me away in the Spirit ( απηνεγκεν με εν πνευματ ). See same language in 17:7 when John received a vision of the Harlot City in a wilderness. Here it is "to a mountain great and high" ( επ ορος μεγα κα υψηλον ). So it was with Ezekiel (Eze 40:2) and so the devil took Jesus (Mt 4:8). It was apparently not Mount Zion (14:1), for the New Jerusalem is seen from this mountain. "The Seer is carried thither 'in spirit' (cf. 1:10; 4:1); the Angel's δευρο is a sursum cor to which his spirit under the influence of the 'Spirit of revelation' (Eph 1:17) at once responds" (Swete).

And he shewed me ( κα εδειξεν μο ). First aorist active indicative of δεικνυμ, just as he had said he would do in verse 9 ( δειξω σο, I will shew thee). Precisely the same words about Jerusalem as in verse 2, save the absence of καινην (New).