Post by Ben on Jul 1, 2014 20:53:11 GMT
Chapter 21
TRANSLATION
1. And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.
2. And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from the Deity out of the heaven, having been prepared as a bride who had been adorned for her husband.
3. And I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold the tabernacle of the Deity with men, and he will dwell with them: and they shall be his peoples, and the Deity himself will be with them, their Deity.
4. And the Deity shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death; nor shall there be sorrow, nor crying, nor pain any more: for the former things have passed away.
5. And he that sitteth upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith to me, Write: for these are true and faithful words.
6. And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be Deity to him, and he shall be to me a son.
8. But to the fearful, and unbelieving, and to those who have been detestable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolators, and to all the liars, their part shall be in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the Second Death.
9. And there came unto me one of the seven angels having the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and he spake to me, saying, Come hither, I will show to thee the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.
10. And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed to me that Great City, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of the heaven from the Deity, having the Glory of the Deity. And the brightness of it was like to a stone most precious, as to a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
12. And it had a great and high wall, having twelve Gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names had been written thereon, which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13. On the east, three gates; on the north, three gates; on the south, three gates; on the west, three gates.
14. And the wall of the city had Twelve Foundations, and on them the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
15. And he that spake with me had a golden reed, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.
16. And the city lieth foursquare, and its length is as much as also the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand furlongs: the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.
17. And he measured the wall of it a hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is of an angel.
18. And the structure of its wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like to clear crystal.
19. And the foundations of the wall of the city had been embellished with every precious stone. The first foundation a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a sardius; the seventh, a chrysolite; the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates severally was of one pearl: and the broadway of the city pure gold, as it were transparent crystal.
22. And I saw in it no nave for the Lord the all-powerful Deity is the Nave of it, and the Lamb.
23. And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in it; for the glory of the Deity hath lightened it, and the lamp of it is the Lamb.
24. And the nations of them who are being saved shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
25. And its gates shall not be shut at all by day; for there shall be no night there.
26. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing unclean, and working abomination, and falsehood: but they who have been written in the book of the Lamb's life.
(Eureka, Volume 5, pages 333-334)