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The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…
The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vers. 23. And the City had no need of the Sun, nor of the Moon to shine in it: for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof.
And the City had no need of the Sun▪ That is, after Temple-Worship is over: ⟨p. 203⟩this Verse is added therefore for further clearing up and illustrating of that which he said before: there he tells us this City had no Temple, and here he tells us she needed neither the light of the Sun or Moon: there he said, The Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, is the Temple of it; and here he saith, They are the Light thereof: The substance of which, in the language of the Holy Ghost, is this, The reason why Temple-Worship is now gone and over, it is because there is now no need in this City of the Light of the Sun and the Moon; and the reason why she hath now no need of them, is, because the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are to it instead of both Temple and Light: For the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple of it: For the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof: Whereby we may note, That though the Light in which she descended (being the purity of Temple-Worship) was glorious, yet this City shall, when she is once builded, so advance from Glory to Glory, that at the last she shall be more happy without the help of that Light, without which she had been for ever unbuilded, then she was ⟨p. 204⟩by it in the midst of the Fullness of it.
And the City had no need of the Sun That is, after Temple-Worship is over: