Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He carried me away in the Spirit (aphnegken me en pneumati). See same language in Revelation 17:7 when John received a vision of the Harlot City in a wilderness. Here it is "to a mountain great and high" (epi orov mega kai uyhlon). So it was with Ezekiel (Ezekiel 40:2) and so the devil took Jesus (Matthew 4:8). It was apparently not Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1), for the New Jerusalem is seen from this mountain. "The Seer is carried thither 'in spirit' (cf. Revelation 1:10; Revelation 4:1); the Angel's deuro is a sursum cor to which his spirit under the influence of the 'Spirit of revelation' (Ephesians 1:17) at once responds" (Swete).
And he shewed me (kai edeicen moi). First aorist active indicative of deiknumi, just as he had said he would do in verse Revelation 21:9 (deicw soi, I will shew thee). Precisely the same words about Jerusalem as in verse Revelation 21:2, save the absence of kainhn (New).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 21:10:
Revelation 3:12
Revelation 11:2
Revelation 17:3
Revelation 21:2
Revelation 21:11
Revelation 21:12
Revelation 22:1
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