But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their [a]part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

[b]And there came unto me one of the seven Angels, which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come: I will show thee the bride the Lamb’s wife.

10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and [c]an high mountain, and he showed me [d]that great city, that holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:8 Their lot, and inheritance as it were.
  2. Revelation 21:9 A transition unto the particular describing of the heavenly Church by the express calling of Saint John in this verse, and his rapting up by the Spirit, in confirmation of the truth of God in the verse following.
  3. Revelation 21:10 He meaneth the place and stately seat of the Church, shadowed out in a mountain.
  4. Revelation 21:10 A type of that Church which is one, ample, or Catholic, holy celestial, built of God, in this verse: and glorious in the verse following. This type propounded generally, is after particularly declared, verse 12, etc.

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars(A)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.(B) This is the second death.”(C)

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues(D) came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride,(E) the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away(F) in the Spirit(G) to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.(H)

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