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| | THE RIVER OF THE WATER OF LIFE |
 | | This, too, is the first feature in the vision which arrests the attention of the apostle; for, although the scenery on either side of the river occupied the foreground of the picture (nearer his point of vision,) yet, before entering on its description, he follows the Stream to its source. |
 | | It is "a pure river of the water of life" on whose banks the Redeemed are to recline, and of whose streams they are to drink. |
 | | We watch that river in its flow, or gaze down into its channel, but all is muddy, baffling, perplexing—"Your judgments are a great deep." But John, as he gazes, sees not only a pure river, but it is translucent—it is "clear as crystal." In God's own light he sees light—all will be revealed then. |
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