Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase
(, from , gold, and , a leek)
This stone is the tenth foundation of the wall of the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:20). The name is now applied to an apple-green variety of chalcedony or hornstone, prized in jewellery and sometimes used for mural decorations. But this chalcedony was probably unknown to the ancients, and the of the Greeks was not improbably our chrysoberyl (Encyclopaedia Britannica 11 vi. 321). The word is not found in either of the Septuagint lists of precious stones (Exo 28:17-20, Eze 28:13) with which the writer of Rev. was familiar.
James Strahan.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase. Chrysoprase occurs only in Rev 21:20. The true chrysoprase is sometimes found in antique Egyptian jewelry set, alternately, with bits of lapis-lazuli. It is a problem, therefore, that this is the stone named as the tenth in the walls of the heavenly Jerusalem.