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

Medieval

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.

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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.

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