SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:27
No entrar en ella ninguna cosa sucia, o que hace abominacin y mentira, sino solamente los que estn escritos en el libro de la vida del Cordero.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 21:27
Verse 27. There shall in nowise enter into it any thing that defileth] See Isa. xxxv. 8; lii. 1. Neither an impure person - he who turns the grace of God into lasciviousness, nor a liar - he that holds and propagates false doctrines. But they which are written] The acknowledged persevering members of the true Church of Christ shall enter into heaven, and only those who are saved from their sins shall have a place in the Church militant.
ALL Christians are bound by their baptism to renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh; to keep God's holy word and commandments; and to walk in the same all the days of their life. This is the generation of them that seek thy face, O God of Jacob! Reader, art thou of this number? Or art thou expecting an eternal glory while living in sin? If so, thou wilt be fearfully disappointed. Presuming on the mercy of God is as ruinous as despairing of his grace. Where God gives power both to will and to do, the individual should work out his salvation with fear and trembling.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth , etc.] As evil thoughts, words, and actions do; and therefore he that enters into this city must be free from all these: or that is defiled, as the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read; or that is unclean, as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; alluding to the tabernacle and temple, into which no unclean person might come; (see Isaiah 52:1). No profane sinner, whose mind and conscience are defiled, and whose conversation is defiling, may enter here; nor any self-righteous person, whose righteousness is as filthy rags, and he himself is as an unclean thing, shall be admitted here; only such who are washed in the blood of Christ, and have on his righteousness, and so are without spot or wrinkle; which shows the pure and perfect state of this church and therefore cannot design any state of the church previous to the coming of Christ and the first resurrection: neither whatsoever worketh abomination ; commits sin, which is abominable in the sight of God, lives and dies in a course of wickedness; or particularly is guilty of idolatry, either makes idols, or serves them, or both, which are an abomination to the Lord; (see 1 Kings 11:7) or maketh a lie ; any lie in general; who is a common liar, loves and invents a lie, and speaks one; delivers that which is false with an intention to deceive; or in particular, who embraces and propagates antichristian lies, doctrinal ones, lies spoken in hypocrisy; such shall be damned; (see <540401> Timothy 4:1 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12) but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life; who are predestinated to eternal life; and though they are naturally, and in themselves defiled and sinful creatures, yet they are justified by the righteousness of Christ, and sanctified by his Spirit, and so are made meet and fit to enter this city; (See Gill on Revelation 13:8).
It is by the Jews observed f486 , that the Jerusalem of the world to come is not as the Jerusalem of this world; the Jerusalem of this world, whoever would go up to it (or enter into it) might; but that of the world to come, hl ynmwzmh ala ylw[ ya , none may go up to it (or enter into it) but those who are prepared, or appointed for it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-27 - Perfect and direct communion with God, will more than supply the plac of gospel institutions. And what words can more full express the unio and co-equality of the Son with the Father, in the Godhead? What dismal world would this be, if it were not for the light of the sun What is there in heaven that supplies its place? The glory of God lightens that city, and the Lamb is the Light thereof. God in Chris will be an everlasting Fountain of knowledge and joy to the saints in heaven. There is no night, therefore no need of shutting the gates; all is at peace and secure. The whole shows us that we should be more an more led to think of heaven as filled with the glory of God, an enlightened by the presence of the Lord Jesus. Nothing sinful of unclean, idolatrous, or false and deceitful, can enter. All the inhabitants are made perfect in holiness. Now the saints feel a sad mixture of corruption, which hinders them in the service of God, an interrupts their communion with him; but, at their entrance into the holy of holies, they are washed in the laver of Christ's blood, an presented to the Father without spot. None are admitted into heaven wh work abominations. It is free from hypocrites, such as make lies. A nothing unclean can enter heaven, let us be stirred up by thes glimpses of heavenly things, to use all diligence, and to perfec holiness in the fear of God __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 ου 3756 μη 3361 εισελθη 1525 5632 εις 1519 αυτην 846 παν 3956 κοινουν 2840 5723 και 2532 ποιουν 4160 5723 βδελυγμα 946 και 2532 ψευδος 5579 ει 1487 μη 3361 οι 3588 γεγραμμενοι 1125 5772 εν 1722 τω 3588 βιβλιω 975 της 3588 ζωης 2222 του 3588 αρνιου 721
Vincent's NT Word Studies
27. That defileth (koinoun). The participle. But the correct reading is the adjective koinon common, hence unhallowed. Rev., unclean.
Worketh (poioun). Lit,, maketh or doeth.
"In this present life, I reckon that we make the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible communion or fellowship with the body, and are not infected with the bodily nature, but remain pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release us. And then the foolishness of the body will be cleared away, and we shall be pure and hold converse with other pure souls, and know of ourselves the clear light everywhere, which is no other than the light of truth. For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure" (Plato, "Phaedo," 67).
