Revelation 21:2
Douay-Rheims
And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Glossa Ordinaria
As a bride adorned. As a bridegroom sends gifts ahead to the bride before he weds her, so Christ sends ahead to the Church faith and virtues and good works before he receives her into glory.
Source details
Apocalypse 21:2
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.