Spiritual Meaning of REVELATION 21:11
The Word was made flesh, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father (John 1:14).
That by "glory" is meant the glory of the Word or the Divine truth in Him, is evident, because it is said "the Word was made flesh"; the same is meant by "glory" in what follows, where it is said:--The glory of God did lighten it, and its lamp is the Lamb (ver. 23). The same is meant by:--
The glory in which they will see the Son of man when He shall come in the clouds of heaven (Matt. 24:30; Mark 13:26).
See above (n. 22, 642, 820); nor is anything else meant by:--
The throne of glory upon which the Lord will sit when He shall come to the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:31);
because He will judge everyone according to the truths of the Word; wherefore it is also said that "He will come in His glory." When the Lord was transfigured, it is also said that:--
Moses and Elias appeared in glory (Luke 9:30, 31).
By "Moses and Elias" is there signified the Word; the Lord also then caused Himself to be seen by the disciples as the Word in its glory. That "glory" signifies the Divine truth, may be seen from many passages of the Word above (n. 629). The reason why the Word is compared to "a stone most precious, like a jasper stone, shining like crystal," is because "a precious stone" signifies the Divine truth of the Word (n. 231, 540, 726, 823), and "a jasper stone" signifies the Divine truth of the Word in the sense of the letter translucent from the Divine truth in the spiritual sense; this is the signification of "a jasper stone" in (Exod. 28:20; Ezek. 28:13), and afterwards in this chapter, where it is said that "the structure of the wall" of the Holy Jerusalem was "jasper" (ver. 18); and since the Word in the sense of the letter is translucent from its spiritual sense, it is said, "a jasper shining like crystal," all enlightenment, which they have who are in Divine truths from the Lord, is thence.
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