Revelation 21:17
Douay-Rheims
And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.
Glossa Ordinaria
The measure of a man. According to the letter, holy John shows that the angel appeared to him in the form of a man, that he might openly denote that he who was signified was a true angel, that is, the Son of God, and was a true man.
Source details
Apocalypse 21:17
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.