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Why is there no silver in the holy Jerusalem? ... I can only suggest that possibly “silver” represents that aspect of redemption in virtue of which we have forgiveness and are justified so that we may do God’s will in the very place where we were under the enemy’s power. That is, that “silver” perhaps suggests our side of redemption — “we have redemption”, etc. But in the holy city all is the display of God’s accomplished counsels, and saints are manifestly the righteousness of God in Christ. The glory of God lightens the city and the Lamb is the light thereof. It seems to me that any special figure of redemption, such as silver would be, would be out of place in a scene every part of which is lighted by the Lamb. Every ray of the glory of God emanates from the One who died. It is no longer redemption as that which takes me out of the thraldom of the enemy, but as the holy light in which God is known in a scene where neither the enemy’s power nor the stain of sin can ever come.