We shall reserve a close treatment of this for when we come to verses 9–11. For now, notice just one crucial thing. Look very carefully at verse 2. Stare at it, in case there is something there you have always missed before. Do you see the clear identity in the vision between ‘the Holy City, the new Jerusalem’ and the ‘bride beautifully dressed for her husband’? So? Precisely this: the city is the bride, and the bride is the city. We know who the bride is from chapter
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