Apocalypsis A briefe and learned commentarie vpon the reuelation of Saint Iohn the apostle and euangelist, applyed vnto the history of the Catholicke and Christian Church. Written in Latine by M. Francis Iunius Doctor of Diuinitie, and professor in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: And translated into English for the benefit of those that vnderstand not the Latine.

CHAP. XXI. (Book 21)

2 He describeth new Hierusalem descending from heauen. 9 The bride the Lambes wife, 12 and the glorious building of the citie, 19 garnished with precious stones: 22 whose temple the Lambe is.

1 1 1.1 * 1.2 AFter I saw ‖ 1.3 a new heauen, & a new earth: for the ‖ 1.4 first heauen, & the first errth were passed away; and the sea was no more.

2 2 1.5 And I Iohn saw that holy citie the new Ie∣rusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband.

3 3 1.6 And I heard a great voyce out of heauen, saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with men: and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.

4 ‖ 1.7 And God shall wipe all teares from their eyes: and there shalbe no more death, neither sorow, neither crying; neither shall there be anie more paine: because the first things are passed.

5 4 1.8 And he that sate vpon the throne, said, ‖ 1.9 Behold, I make all things new: and he said vn∣to me, Write: for these wordes are faithfull and true.

6 And he sayd vnto me, ¶ 5 1.10 they were; I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I * 1.11 will giue to him that is a thirst, of the well of the water of life freely.

7 He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my sonne.

8 But the fearefull and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall haue their a 1.12 part in the lake, which burneth with fire & brimstone, which is the second death.

9 6 1.13 Then there came vnto me one of the se∣uen Angels, which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plagues; and he talked with me saying, Come: I will shew thee the bride, the Lambs wife.

10 And he caried me away in the spirite to a great and 7 1.14 and high mountaine, and shewed me 8 1.15 that great citie, that holy Ierusalem, descending out of heauen from God;

11 Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was like vnto a stone most precious, as a Iasper stone, that is cleare as crystall,

12 9 1.16 And it had a great wall and high, and had

10 1.17 twelue gates, and at the gates 11 1.18 twelue Angels, and names written, which are the names of the twelue tribes of the children of Israell.

13 On the East part there were three gates, and on the North side three gates; on the South side three gates, and on the West side three gates.

14 And the wall of the citie had 12 1.19 twelue foū∣dations; and in them the Names of the twelue A∣postles of the Lambe.

15 13 1.20 Also he that talked with me, had a gol∣den reede, to measure the citie withall, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

16 14 1.21 And the citie lay b 1.22 foure square, and the length is as large as the bredth of it; and he mea∣sured the citie with the reede, vnto twelue thou∣sand furlongs: and the length, and the bredth, and the height of it are equall.

17 And he measured the wall thereof, an c 1.23 hun∣dreth fortie and foure cubites, by the measure of a man, that is, of the d 1.24 Angell.

18 15 1.25 And y^e building of the wal of it was of Iasper: and the citie was pure gold, like vnto cleare glasse.

19 And the foundations of the wall of the citie were garnished with all maner of precious stones: the first foundation was Iasper: the second of Sa∣phire: the third of a Chalcedonie: the fourth of an Emeraude:

20 The fift of a Sardonix: the sixt of a Sardius, the seuenth of a Chrysolite: the eight of a Beryl: the ninth of a Topaze: the tenth of a Chrysopra∣sus: the eleuenth of a Iacynth: the twelfth of an Amethyst.

21 And the twelue gates were twelue marga∣rites,

and euerie gate is of one margarite, and the e 1.26 streete of the citie is pure gold, as the shining glasse.

22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God almightie & the Lamb are the Temple of it.

23 16 1.27 ‖ 1.28 And this citie hath no need of the sunne, neither of the moone to shine in it: for the glorie of God did light it: and the Lambe is the light of it.

24 ‖ 1.29 And the people which are saued, shall walke in the light of it: and the Kings of the earth shall bring their glorie and honor vnto it.

25 ‖ 1.30 And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

26 And the glorie, and honor of the Gentiles shall be brought vnto it.

27 And there shall enter into it nothing that infecteth, neither whatsoeuer worketh abomina∣tion, or speaketh lyes: but they onely which are written in the Lambes ‖ 1.31 booke of life.

Notes

• 1 1.1

  Now follow∣eth the second part of the hi∣storie prophe∣ticall, (as I said chap. 1. & 11. 1.) Of the future estate of the church in hea∣uen after the last iudgement, vnto the 5. verse of the next chapter. In this are two thinges briefly decla¦red: The station, seate, or place thereof verse. 1. Then her state and condi∣tion, in the verses following. Before the state of the church describe 〈◊〉〈◊〉 set downe the state of the whole world: that there shal be a new heauen and a new earth, as Esay 65. 17. and 66. 12. and 2. Pet. 3. 19. and this is the seate or place of the church, in which righteousnes shall dwell.
• * 1.2

  F. IVNIVS.
• ‖ 1.3

  Esay 65. 17. and 66. 22.
• ‖ 1.4

  2. Pet. 3. 13.
• 2 1.5

  The state of this glorious Church, is first described generally vnto the 8. verse, and then specially and by partes, in the verses following. The generall description consisteth in a vision shewed a farre of, verse 2. and in speach spoken from heauen. In the generall these things are common; that the church is holy, new, the workmanship of God, heauenly, most glorious, the spouse of Christ, and partaker of his glorie, in this verse.
• 3 1.6

  The church is described by speach first of an Angell in two verses, then of God himselfe, in foure verses. The Angels speach describeth the glorie of the church by the most familiar cohabitation of God therewith, by communication of all manner good things according to the couenant, in this verse: and by remouing or putting farre away of all euill things, in the verse following.
• ‖ 1.7

  Chap. 7. 17. Esay. 25. 8.
• 4 1.8

  In the speach of God himselfe describing the church, is first a certaine exordium or entrance, verse 5. Then followeth a magnificent description of the church, by the present and future good things of the same, in three verses following. In the exordium God chalengeth vnto himself the restoring of all the crea∣tures, of which verse 1. and witnesseth the calling of Saint Iohn vnto the wri∣ting of these things, in this verse.
• ‖ 1.9

  Esay. 43. 19. 2. Cor. 5. 17.
• 5 1.10

  The descrip∣tion of the Church is of three sorts; by abolishing of old things: by the being of present things in God, that is, of things eter∣nall: and by the communicati∣on of all good thinges with the godly, verse 6. If so be they shal striue man∣fully, vers. 7. But the reprobate are excluded from thence, verse 8.
• * 1.11

  Chap. 1. 8. and 22. 13.
• a 1.12

  Their lot, and inheritance as it were.
• 6 1.13

  A transition vnto the parti∣cular descri∣bing of the hea¦uenly church: by the expresse calling of Saint Iohn in this verse, and his rapting vp by the Spirite, in confirmation of the truth of God, in the verse following.
• 7 1.14

  He meaneth the place and stately seate of the church, shadowed out in a mountaine.
• 8 1.15

  A type of that church which is one, ample or catholike, holy, celestiall, built of God, in this verse: and glorious, in the verse following. This type propounded generally, is after particularly declared verse 12. &c.
• 9 1.16

  A particular description (as I noted verse 2.) of the celestiall church: first by the essentiall partes of the same) vnder the similitude of a cittie, vnto verse 22. Secondly by forraine accidents, vnto the end of the chapter. Thirdly by the effectes in the be∣ginning of the next chapter. the essentiall parts, are noted the matter and the forme in the whole worke; of these the superficies and foundati∣on of the wall are intire partes (as they vse to be called:) which parts are first described in figure, vnto the fourteenth verse, and afterwards more exactly.
• 10 1.17

  According to the number of the tribes, of which chapter 7. For here the outward part is attributed vnto the old testa∣ment, and the foundation vn∣to the new te∣stament.
• 11 1.18

  He meaneth the Prophets, who are the messengers of God, & watch∣men of the Church.
• 12 1.19

  That is, foū∣dation stones, according to the number of the gates, as is shewed verse 19.
• 13 1.20

  A transition vnto a more ex∣quisite description of the parts of the church, by finding out the measure of the same, by the Angel that measured them.
• 14 1.21

  The measure and forme most equall: in two verses.
• b 1.22

  A foure squa∣red figure hath equall sides, and oueright corners, and therefore the Graecians call by this name those things that are steadie, and of continuance, and perfect.
• c 1.23

  Which num∣ber is twelue multiplied by twelue.
• d 1.24

  He addeth this, because the Angell had the shape of a man.
• 15 1.25

  The matter most pretious and glittering, which the presence of God maketh most glorious.
• e 1.26

  By streete, he meaneth the bro∣dest place of the citie.
• 16 1.27

  The second forme of parti∣cular descriptiō (as I said v. 12.) from forrein & outward acci∣dents: which are these, Light from God him∣selfe, in this ver. glorie frō men, verse 24. perfect securitie frō all harme, verse 25. Finally such truth and incorruption of glorie (verse 26.) as can beare and abide with it, nothing that is inglorious, verse the last.
• ‖ 1.28

  Esa. 60. 19.
• ‖ 1.29

  Esa. 60. 3.
• ‖ 1.30

  Esa. 60. 11.
• ‖ 1.31

  Esa. 3. 5. and 20. 12. Phil. 4. 3.