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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
south three gates; and on the west three

gates. 14. And the wall of the city had twelve

foundations, and in them the names of the

twelve apostles of the Lamb.

The Bride, the Lamb’s Wife. — This testimony

is positive that the New Jerusalem is the bride,

the Lamb’s wife. The angel told John distinctly

that he would show him the bride, the Lamb’s

wife; and we may be sure that he did not

practice upon him a piece of deception, but

fulfilled his promise to the very letter; hut all

that he did show him was the New Jerusalem.

It would be unnecessary to offer a word of

proof that this city is not the church, were it

not that popular theology has so mystified the

Scriptures as to give it this application. This

city, then, cannot be the church, because it

would be absurd to talk of the church as lying