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Bible Analysis
Hebrews 12:22
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
(See Variants Below)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Textus Receptus Support:
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Variants
This verse is not fully supported by the Beza 1598 but is supported by the Stephanus 1550.
Variant: Repunctuate "to an innumerable company of angels, (23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn" to "to an innumerable company [in] the general assembly of angels, and to the church of the firstborn."
Greek-English Dictionary
Hierusalem (that is Jerushalem) the capital of Palestine
Jerusalem = "set ye double peace"
1. denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants
2. "the Jerusalem that now is", with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location
3. "Jerusalem that is above", that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built
a. metaph. "the City of God founded by Christ", now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom
4. "the heavenly Jerusalem", that is the heavenly abode of God, Christ, the angels, saints of the Old and New Testament periods and those Christians that are alive at Christ's return
5. "the New Jerusalem", a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.