From FC Volume 144: editor translator
Mark DelCogliano -- Gregory the Great:
writings on the Apocalypse, pp. 70-71
The city itself was pure gold,
clear as glass.
By the term "gold" is understood
the splendor of the heavenly City, as
when John (in Revelation) testifies
that he say it, saying: "The city
itself was pure gold, clear as glass".
Now the gold, of which that city consists
is said to be like glass, so that both
by the gold may be designated its
brightness and the glass its clearness.
And again, by the term "gold" is
suggested charity as when the same
John beheld the angel speaking with him
having a golden girdle around his
breast (see Revelation 1:13 and 15:6).
For surely, insofar as the breasts of
the citizens of heaven are no longer
subjected to the fear of punishment and
are not divided from each other by any
dissension, they bind themselves together
by charity alone. For to have a golden
girdle around the breast is to bind together
all the movements of our unstable thoughts
through the bonds of love alone!
Gregory the Great's Moralia on Job 34.15
[transl. and edited in 2022 Writings on the
Apocalypse ISBN: 9780813234915 ]
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