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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
VERSE 19. And the foundations of the wall of

the city were garnished with all manner of

precious stones. The first foundation was

jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a

chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20. The

fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,

chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz;

the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a

jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

A Literal City. — If we consider this

description exclusively metaphorical, as is

done by the great mass of those who profess

to be Bible teachers, and spiritualize away this

city into aerial nothingness, how unmeaning,

yea, even bordering upon folly, do these

minute descriptions appear; but if we take it,

as it is evidently designed to be understood, in

its natural and obvious signification, and look