The Description of a State (Condition)
Note this beautiful circumstance in the heavenly Jerusalem. No one appears there. There is no crowd, no inhabitant. The city itself is the spouse, the Lamb’s wife. But it has the glory of God; that is, the glory of God and the Lamb are so entirely everything that the people are absorbed, as it were, lost in the glory which is there, and the description becomes not of people but of the state in which they were. The divine glory was everything—the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb being the temple—the Lord God Almighty the light, and the Lamb lightening it. The nations walk in its light; there we find people. In the city there is nothing but divine glory.
J. N. Darby