Revelation 21:5-8 And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.… Shelley calls this "a wrong world"; St. Paul, "a present evil world." They saw it alike, but the apostle put into the word "present" a hope that the wrong and evil world will at last yield to a right world. (T. T. Munger, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. |