I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Coming down from God out of heaven. By the city we must understand its citizens, the Angels and saints. Witham.—Justice, innocence, the good works of the saints, are the ornaments of the inhabitants of this new Jerusalem, the Church triumphant. If the world of the old Adam has appeared so beautiful, so magnificent, good God, what will be the riches of that which is made for Jesus Christ, the second Adam, and for his members! O Jesus! Father of the world to come, render us worthy of this new and everlasting world, and give us a disgust, a mortal hatred, for that which perishes, and which is the cause of our perdition.