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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
height was proportionate to the length and

breadth. And this idea is strengthened by the

fact that the wall was only a hundred and

forty-four cubits high. Taking the cubit at

about twenty-two inches, the length which is

most commonly assigned to the ancient cubit,

it would give only two hundred and sixty-four

feet as the height of the wall. Now, if the city is

just as high as it is long and broad, that is,

three hundred and seventy-five miles, this

wall of less than three hundred feet would be,

in comparison, a most insignificant affair.

Probably, therefore, the height of the

buildings of the city is to be judged of by the

height of the wall, which is distinctly given.

The following criticisms on verse 16, the verse

which gives the dimensions of the heavenly

city, are undoubtedly correct: —