Rev 3:12, 11:2, 21:10, 22:19 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 12. A pillar in the temple ] There is probably all allusion here to the two pillars in the temple of Jerusalem, called Jachin and Boaz , stability and strength. The Church is the temple ; CHRIST is the foundation on which it is built; and his ministers are the PILLARS by which, under him, it is adorned and supported. St. Paul has the same allusions, . I will write upon him the name of my God ] That is, I will make him a priest unto myself. The priest had written on his forehead kodesh laihovah , "Holiness to the Lord." And the name of the city of my God ] As the high priest had on his breastplate the names of the twelve tribes engraved, and these constituted the city or Church of God ; Christ here promises that in place of them the twelve apostles, representing the Christian Church , shall be written, which is called the New Jerusalem , and which God has adopted in place of the twelve Jewish tribes . My new name. ] The Saviour of ALL; the light that lightens the GENTILES; the CHRIST; the Anointed One; the only GOVERNOR of his Church; and the Redeemer of ALL mankind. There is here an intimation that the Christian Church is to endure for ever; and the Christian ministry to last as long as time endures: He shall go no more out for ever.

‏ Revelation of John 3:12

Verse 12. A pillar in the temple] There is probably all allusion here to the two pillars in the temple of Jerusalem, called Jachin and Boaz, stability and strength. The Church is the temple; CHRIST is the foundation on which it is built; and his ministers are the PILLARS by which, under him, it is adorned and supported. St. Paul has the same allusions, Ga 2:9.

I will write upon him the name of my God] That is, I will make him a priest unto myself. The priest had written on his forehead kodesh laihovah, "Holiness to the Lord."

And the name of the city of my God] As the high priest had on his breastplate the names of the twelve tribes engraved, and these constituted the city or Church of God; Christ here promises that in place of them the twelve apostles, representing the Christian Church, shall be written, which is called the New Jerusalem, and which God has adopted in place of the twelve Jewish tribes.

My new name.] The Saviour of ALL; the light that lightens the GENTILES; the CHRIST; the Anointed One; the only GOVERNOR of his Church; and the Redeemer of ALL mankind.

There is here an intimation that the Christian Church is to endure for ever; and the Christian ministry to last as long as time endures: He shall go no more out for ever.

‏ Revelation of John 11:2

Verse 2. But the court-is given unto the Gentiles] The measuring of the temple probably refers to its approaching destruction, and the termination of the whole Levitical service; and this we find was to be done by the Gentiles, (Romans,) who were to tread it down forty-two months; i.e., just three years and a half, or twelve hundred and sixty days. This must be a symbolical period.

‏ Revelation of John 21:10

Verse 10. To a great and high mountain] That, being above this city, he might see every street and lane of it.

The holy Jerusalem] See Clarke on Re 21:2.

‏ Revelation of John 22:19

Verse 19. If any man shall take away] If any man shall lessen this meaning, curtail the sense, explain away the spirit and design, of these prophecies, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, &c. Thus Jesus Christ warns all those who consider this book to beware of indulging their own conjectures concerning it. I confess that this warning has its own powerful influence upon my mind, and has prevented me from indulging my own conjectures concerning its meaning, or of adopting the conjectures of others. These visions and threatenings are too delicate and awful a subject to trifle with, or even to treat in the most solemn manner, where the meaning is obscure. I must leave these things to time and event, the surest interpreters. No jot or tittle of Christ's word shall fall to the ground; all shall have its fulfilment in due time.

This is termed a revelation, but it is a revelation of symbols; an exhibition of enigmas, to which no particular solution is given, and to which God alone can give the solution.