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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
each other, but equal with themselves; that

is, the length was everywhere the same, and

the breadth everywhere the same, and the

height the same. It was perfect and

symmetrical in all its proportions. This is

confirmed by the fact distinctly stated, that the

wall was one hundred and forty-four cubits

high, or two hundred and sixteen feet, a

proper height for a wall; while it is said that

‘the length is as large as the breadth.’” This

writer allows but eighteen inches to the cubit.

The Greek word isos, which is translated

equal, will, according to Pickering, bear the

meaning of proportion. Greenfield, in defining

one of its cognate words (isotes), gives to it

the sense of “equal proportion,” and refers to

2 Corinthians 8:13, 14 as an example where

this definition is quite admissible.