Bonaventure, on Rev 21:17

“And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.”

“For if they are led twelve by twelve, they will be a hundred and forty-four, that is, the number of the City of Jerusalem. And so, a soul hierarchized in this way is a city in which God lives and is seen. John says of this: "He took me up in spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem." And in the same chapter, he says that it was measured "to twelve thousand stadia." And, later, that "the length and the height and the breadth of it are equal." And that the measure of the wall was "a hundred and forty-four cubits."”

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