Revelation Chapter 21 verse 22 Holy Bible
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.
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And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.
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And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.
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And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
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And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. No ναός, "inner shrine," or "sanctuary" (cf. Revelation 7:15). The whole city is now the ναός (cf. on vers. 16, 17, where the shape of the city is that of the holy of holies). The presence of God pervades all the city (cf. ver. 11); all the redeemed are within the sanctuary, all are now priests (cf. Revelation 20:6). There is, therefore, no ναός, or "temple," within the city, for the whole city itself is the temple. The Object of all worship and the great Sacrifice are there (Alford).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) And I saw no temple therein . . .--Rather, And temple I saw not in it, for the Lord God the Almighty is her temple, and the Lamb. In Ezekiel's vision the vast and splendid proportions of the Temple formed a conspicuous part: its gigantic proportions declared it to be figurative (Ezekiel 48:8-20); but the present vision passes on to a higher state of things. "I saw no temple:" Ezekiel's vision declared that the literal temple would be replaced by a far more glorious spiritual temple. The age of the Christian Church succeeds the age of the Jewish temple-worship; the age of the Church triumphing will succeed the age of the Church toiling; and there the external organisations, helps, and instrumentalities required for the edifying of the body of Christ will no longer be needed. Tongues, prophecies, knowledge, may pass away (1Corinthians 13:9; Ephesians 4:11-13); churches will disappear, absorbed in the one glorious Church; ministries, missionary organisations, helps, governments, may cease. There God is all. The Lord is there--the temple, the sanctuary, the dwelling-place of His people. (Comp. Ezekiel 48:35.) Every merely local aspect of worship is at an end (John 4:21-24).
