3. out of heaven--so ANDREAS. But A and
Vulgate read, "out of the throne."
the tabernacle--alluding to the tabernacle of God in the
wilderness (wherein many signs of His presence were given): of which
this is the antitype, having previously been in heaven:
Re 11:19; 15:5,
"the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven"; also
Re 13:6.
Compare the contrast in
Heb 9:23, 14,
between "the patterns" and "the heavenly things themselves," between
"the figures" and "the true." The earnest of the true and heavenly
tabernacle was afforded in the Jerusalem temple described in
Eze 40:1-42:20,
as about to be, namely, during the millennium.
dwell with them--literally, "tabernacle with them"; the
same Greek word as is used of the divine Son
"tabernacling among us." Then He was in the weakness of the
flesh: but at the new creation of heaven and earth He shall
tabernacle among us in the glory of His manifested Godhead
(Re 22:4).
they--in Greek emphatic, "they" (in particular).
his people--Greek, "His peoples": "the nations of
the saved" being all peculiarly His, as Israel was designed to be. So A
reads. But B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic read, "His
people": singular.
God himself . . . with them--realizing fully His name
Immanuel.
JFB.
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