Revelation Chapter 21 verse 14 Holy Bible
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb; and on them twelve names, etc. (cf. Ephesians 2:20). The imagery is, of course, symbolical, and there can, therefore, be no question as to individual names of apostles, e.g. whether St. Matthias or St. Paul is the twelfth. Some writers have, without sufficient reason, brought forward this verse as indicating that the writer of the Apocalypse was not an apostle.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) And the wall of the city had . . .--Or, rather, And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. There were twelve large stones forming the basement of the wall, the names of the Apostles were inscribed on these. The whole Old and New Testament Church is represented in the appearance of the city; but the work of the Apostles receives its special recognition; it is on their teaching and witness for Christ that the great spiritual Jerusalem is built. There is complete harmony of thought here between St. Paul and St. John. St. Paul described the Church as built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner-stone (Ephesians 2:20). We may compare the same illustration used by our Lord (Matthew 16:18) and afterwards by St. Peter (1Peter 2:4-6). The argument that St. John could not be the writer of the Apocalypse because he speaks of the Apostles (and so includes himself) as the foundation-stones of the celestial city, might be applied with equal wisdom against the Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Ephesians; it is, moreover, a class of argument which betrays a tendency to confusion of thought, and to misapprehension of the meaning and value of symbols. Historically and doctrinally the Church of Christ is built upon the foundations here described; our creeds declare an acknowledgment of a catholic and apostolic Church. Note the recurrence of the name, the Lamb, to describe our Lord. He is still the Lamb; the writer lingers over the well and early known image. (Comp. John 1:29; John 1:36.) . . .
