15 [a]And he that walked with me, had a golden reed, to measure the city withal, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

16 [b]And the city lay [c]foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth of it, and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: and the length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.

17 And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty and four cubits, by the measure of man, that is, of the [d]Angel.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:15 A transition unto a more exquisite description of the parts of the Church, by finding out the measure of the same by the Angel that measured them.
  2. Revelation 21:16 The measure and form most equal, in 2 verses.
  3. Revelation 21:16 A foursquared figure hath equal sides, and outright corners, and therefore the Greeks call by this name those things that are steady, and of continuance and perfect.
  4. Revelation 21:17 He addeth this, because the Angel had the shape of a man.

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