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Father, Thou hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me.
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I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me may be with Me where I am ; and
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That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. It goes on--
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. Another is in 2 Cor. vi. 18;
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I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and My daughters, saith the Lord God Almighty. It goes on--
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Having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. The third is in 1 John iii. 1:
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Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God ; and the best reading continues--
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; it continues with
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and
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And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, gleaming as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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What advantage then hath the Jew? with an unhesitating expression of
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; for unto them pertained the city of God. For example, when we read, in Galatians, the passage in which St. Paul speaks of the old Covenant, under the terms
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Agar and
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Mount Sinai in Arabia, who but those who had felt the galling of a foreign yoke, and the insolence and exaction of Roman tyranny, could have realised the pathos of the words
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; and what citizen of the New and Spiritual City, who had not also dwelt within the ancient and outward walls, could have felt the full contrast expressed in the triumphant thanksgiving that
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Jerusalem, which is above, is free ? In the same way, if one would understand the magnificent passage in which the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews describes the New Jerusalem, one would need to have worshipped within the courts of the Old. How else can one see the lines traced in the picture, and mark the analogy between the multitude of white-robed priests and the innumerable company of angels; or see the general assembly of folk gathered for festival from all parts of the land? here, too, are the consecrated eldest-born, and here the rolls in which their names are entered; and, passing within the veil, even in ancient days, one might say, in some sense,
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We are come to God the Judge of all, and to Jesus the Mediator of the covenant, and to the Blood of sprinkling. So you will understand that the best place to view the New Jerusalem from is the ruins of the Old. It is in this spirit that we want to study the gleaming waters
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The holy city, which exists at present, in which also the holy temple is established, is at a great distance from any sea or river, so that it is clear that the writer here means figuratively to speak of some other city than the visible city of God.