And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks:
Glossa Ordinaria
And I turned. And because I heard a voice, I turned, etc. Seven candlesticks. That is, seven churches burning and illuminated with the wisdom of the divine Word. Golden. As gold tried by fire and drawn out by blows is made into a candlestick, so the Church, purged by tribulations and drawn out into long-suffering by the strokes of temptations, is brought to perfection; and if it has a voice in the mouth and not in work, it is indeed a candlestick, but not golden.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.