21,6 Of this kingdom, the Lord reminded the Apostles before He suffered, saying: I will not drink of this fruit of the vine any more, until when I will drink with you again in the coming kingdom [Mt 26:29], which is the hundred parts multiplied, ten times, a thousand times, to greater things and better things.
And what he says of the different stones, that they will be shown by kind and by color, this speaks of men; as also it signifies the most precious variety of the faith of each man. For the gates of pearls he shows to be the Apostles [Rev 21:12—14, 21]. They will not be closed [Rev 21:25], he says: grace is given through them, and the same is never closed. In this place they will see face to face [1 Cor 13:12], and one will not request of another [Is 34:15—16]. And the names of the Fathers and the Apostles are to be both on the foundations and over the gates [Rev 21:12, 14]: we have already treated of the 24 elders, and of those who are to rule in this kingdom, they will judge the world [1 Cor 6:2].
(Translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb)
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