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I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and all your border of precious stones.
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A Picture of Future Glory
Commentators agree that the imagery of a city built with precious stones is a metaphor for the future glory of the Church. This splendor, built by God Himself, will far surpass any earthly beauty or previous experience. It points to a future state of unparalleled magnificence, security, and value for God's people, both in this life and the one to come.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And I will make your windows - The word rendered here ‘windows’ is rendered by Jerome propugnacula - ‘fortresses,’ bulwarks, ramparts; and b…
19th Century
Baptist
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
See what riches belong …
16th Century
Protestant
And I will lay thy windows with pearls. By these metaphors he shows that the condition of the Church, as has been previously said, will be…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will make your windows of agates Some sort of which stones, Pliny F24 says, were valued for their c…
Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, consider that God is speaking comfortingly to them through these words, taking notice of their gr…
13th Century
Catholic
Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.
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