Revelation 21:25 BSB

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

KJV

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

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Commentary

1 voice

Victorinus of Pettau

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (304)

And that the gates cannot be shut, it is evidently shown that the doctrine of the apostles can be separated from rectitude by no tempest of contradiction. Even though the floods of the nations and the vain superstitions of heretics should revolt against their true faith, they are overcome, and shall be dissolved as the foam, because Christ is the Rock by which, and on which, the Church is founded. And thus it is overcome by no traces of maddened men.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There is no night, and therefore no need of shutting up the gates. Some one or other is coming in every hour and moment, and those that are sanctified always find the gates open; they have an abundant entrance into the kingdom. (4.) The accommodations of this city: All the glory and honour of the nations shall be brought into it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day - It shall be constantly open, allowing free ingress and egress to all who reside there. The language is derived from Isa 60:11. See the notes on that place. Applied to the future state of the blessed, it would seem to mean, that while this will be their permanent abode, yet that the dwellers there will not be prisoners. The universe will be open to them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gates are usually shut by night: but in it shall be no night. There shall be continual free ingress into it, so as that all which is blessed and glorious may continually be brought into it. So in the millennial type.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πυλῶνες	pulōnes	gates	G4440 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	of it	G846 →
οὐ	ou	certainly	G3756 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
κλεισθῶσιν	kleisthōsin	may be shut	G2808 →
ἡμέρας·	hēmeras	by day;	G2250 →
νὺξ	nux	night	G3571 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
ἐκεῖ.	ekei	there.	G1563 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 21:23
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.
leads to
- Isaiah 60:19–20
  No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 22:5
  There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
leads to
- Revelation 21:4
  ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Psalms 84:11
  For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Isaiah 35:10
  So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Psalms 27:1
  The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— whom shall I dread?
Through
Isaiah 60:11
Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.
leads to
- Revelation 21:25–26
  Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
Through
Revelation 22:5
There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and…
leads to
- Daniel 7:18
  But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever—yes, forever and ever.’

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