Revelation 21:26

26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.[a] [b]

Revelation 21:26 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 21:26

And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into
it.
] The glory of the nations are the people of God, who, though they are reckoned the filth of the world, are the excellent in the earth; these will be brought into this city, and be presented to the King of it, in a glorious manner, and that by the kings of the earth; either such who have been ecclesiastical rulers over them, who will introduce them as their joy and crown of rejoicing; or who have been political governors of them, their fathers and protectors; or the sense is as before, that whatever is great and glorious in the nations of the world, will be counted as nothing in comparison of the glory and magnificence of this state, and not to be mentioned with it: the Arabic version renders it, "the nations shall bring glory and honour to it"; in the sense before given.

Revelation 21:26 In-Context

24 The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25 Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there.
26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27 Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Other mss add in order that they might go in
  • [b]. Isaiah 60:11
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