And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Glossa Ordinaria
They sung a canticle. With exultation the Church professes the New Testament by work, while she baptizes into his death. Tribe. It is so called from three orders, in which there are seventy-two tongues, in each one of them; of which there are many peoples, and in a people, nations. Three orders of those to be saved: Noe, Daniel, Job. Or three orders of the nations: Greeks, Hebrews, Christians.
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.