And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
And they shall bring … – See the notes on Rev 21:24. That blessed world shall be made up of all that was truly valuable and pure on the earth.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 26. The glory and honour of the nations into it.] Still alluding to the declarations of the prophets, (see the passages in the margin, Re 21:24, &c.,) that the Gentiles would be led to contribute to the riches and glory of the temple by their gifts, &c.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Whatsoever is excellent or desirable in the world, shall be supplied to the souls of those that are in heaven, by good of another make, but which shall be equally (nay, infinitely more) satisfactory to the soul.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
26. All that was truly gloriousand excellent in the earth and its converted nations shall begathered into it; and while all shall form one Bride, thereshall be various orders among the redeemed, analogous to thedivisions of nations on earth constituting the one great humanfamily, and to the various orders of angels.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
They shall bring (). Future active indicative of . Rome gathered the merchandise of the world (18:11ff.). The City of God will have the best of all the nations (Isa 60:5; Isa 60:11), an expansion of verse 24.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “And they shall bring,” (kai oisousin) “And they will bring,” the redeemed of the sheep nations or races those saved from the nations, races without, without the church, and without Israel, and without the Holy City, Rev 21:24.
2) “The glory,” (ten doksen) “The glory,” The glory and adoration that is due God, the Lamb, the church, and Israel into the Holy City. It is to God, by Christ Jesus, Gal 6:14; Eph 3:10; Eph 3:21; Php_1:11; Rev 5:9-13; Rev 7:12. Angels gave it at the birth of the Redeemer. Luk 2:13-14.
3) “And honour,” (kai ten timen) “And the honour,” or also the honor;” Even as the four living creatures gave honor to God and the Lamb, Rev 4:9; Rev 4:11; Rev 5:12-13; Rev 19:1; Rev 19:7; So shall the saved from the nations come into the new Jerusalem to bring her temple their honor in all eternity.
4) “Of the nations into it,” (ton ethnon eis auten) “Of the nations (redeemed of races) into it,” the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, into the midst of it, where the Father and the Son (the Lamb) are (Exist as) the Light and the Temple center of all worship for eternity, Isa 60:3-5; Joh 4:24; Rev 21:21-24.
Let it be here recalled that Jesus Christ is the Central person of the book of Revelation, revealed or unveiled, continually in his relationship 1) To Israel, God’s Wife, 2) To the church, and 3) To the redeemed from among the Gentiles of the ages who never committed themselves to God’s Divine call for worship and service through either Israel’s or the church’s covenant of worship and service, 1Co 10:32.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
26. The glory and honour Not only of the kings but also of the nations, the collective peoples, shall pour into God’s royal capital.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
Ver. 26. And they ] i.e. The kings, as Rev 21:24 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
From the tradition of En. liii. 1 and Ps. Sol. 17:34 35 (where the Gentile nations seek Jerusalem , ); cf. Apoc. Bar. lxviii. 5. The idea of 24 and 26 is of course literally inconsistent with those of Rev 19:17 f. and Rev 20:12 f., since on the new earth there were no residents except the risen saints. Both ideas were current in rabbinic eschatology (Gfrrer, ii. 238 f.), but the Apocalypse is entirely free from any such complacent estimate of Gentile outsiders ( cf. En. xc. 30). The discrepancy here, as in Rev 22:5 , is imaginary. These details are simply poetical and imaginative, inserted from the older symbolism, in which they were quite appropriate, in order by their archaic and pictorial fulness to fill out the sketch of the future city. They have no allegorical significance.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
honour = the honour.
the nations. These are the “sheep” nations of His right hand during the millennial reign. See Mat 25:31-46.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the glory: Rev 21:24
Reciprocal: Psa 49:16 – glory Psa 72:11 – all kings Isa 60:5 – be enlarged Isa 60:10 – their kings
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Rev 21:26. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. Such shall be the use made of the open gates. The nations shall stream into the city with their gifts, to lay their best upon its altars, and to enjoy in turn its rest and peace and security and light. The New Jerusalem receives freely, and possesses for ever, the glory and honour of the lungs of the earth. She receives without seeking it all that Babylon had become a harlot to obtain, and could not keep.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
The gates will admit these leaders who will bring glory and honor to God from their respective groups of followers. This is a picture of worship in the new creation.
". . . these verses reflect the ancient practice of kings and nations bringing their wealth and glory to the city of the greatest king. In the heavenly city, everyone will honor the ’King of kings’ (see Psa 68:29; Psa 72:10-11; Isaiah 60)." [Note: Wiersbe, 2:624.]