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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 2.

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By Trench

Tell me the meaning of Scriptures. One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.—M'Cheyne.
Revelation, xxi, 16.
“THE length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.”
VITRINGA, following Grotius and some other interpreters, is of opinion that this means, “that the houses were like the Holy of Holies, a complete cube.” Each house in New Jerusalem was a complete cube, the form that indicated entire stability. Thus, it was not the immense city as a whole that had its hight equal to its length and breadth, but each mansion in it was so, and each mansion was so because each dwelling there is like the Holy of Holies.—Trench.