...which Christian is admitted to the heavenly Jerusalem and the narrator sees through the gates that '[t]he City shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold'. There is evident intertextual reference here to the biblical words 'the city was of pure gold' (Rev....

...appears to solve this problem on every count: Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them; and behold, the City shone...Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withall. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission,...

...throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.' " Now, just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold the city shone...golden harps, to sing praises withal. There were also them that had wings, and they answered one another, without intermission,' saying, ( Holy, holy, holy,...

...man the things that the Lord hath prepared for them that love Him," for, as I looked in, I saw that the City shone like the sun; the streets also were...their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps wherewith to sing praises. There were also some that had wings and they constantly called one to another,...

...(Revelation 5:13b) Now, just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and the City shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold, and in the streets many persons walked with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps...

...behold, the City shone like the sun. And the streets were paved with gold. And many men walked in them, with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises with. Also some of them had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, "Holy,...