And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
We have already considered the introduction to the vision of the new Jerusalem in a more general idea of the heavenly state; we now come to the vision itself, where observe, I. The person that opened the vision to the apostle - one of the seven angels, that had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, Rev 21:9.
Commenting on Revelation 21:9-27
And the nations of them which are saved,.... In distinction from them that will be deceived by Satan, Rev 20:8. These are not all the nations of the world, which will be gathered before Christ, the Judge, for all will not be saved, there is a world that will be condemned; nor the Gentiles only, which shall come into the church state of the Jews...
Verse 23. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it. This imagery seems to be derived from . . No language could give a more striking or beautiful representation of the heavenly state than that which is here employed. For the glory of God did lighten it. By the visible splendour of his glory. .