{I saw no temple therein} (
aon ouk eidon en aut(8869)).
"Temple I did not see in it." The whole city is a temple in one
sense (verse 16 ), but it is something more than a temple even
with its sanctuary and Shekinah Glory in the Holy of Holies. {For
the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb are the temple thereof}
(ho gar Kurios ho theos ho pantokrat(9372), naos aut(8873) estin kai to
arnion). "For the Lord God, the Almighty, is the sanctuary of it
and the Lamb." The Eternal Presence is the Shekinah Glory of God
(verse 3 ). In 2Co 6:16 we are the sanctuary of God here, but
now God is our Sanctuary, and so is the Lamb as in chapters Re
4 5 . See 1:8 and often for the description of God here.
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