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ing afforded its inhabitants the opportunity
with their own eyes and to partake of their benefits, by
having populated this earth with the new children of
Adam as its citizens and their allies and by having turned
it over to them without any danger of loss. On account
of these different kinds of renewal he said that the first
heaven and the first earth had gone; not only because
to see Them
the sacred humanity of Christ and that of most holy
Mary, in which He had lived as in the first heaven, had
betaken Themselves to the eternal habitations, bearing
with them also the earth of their human essence ;
but also
because men themselves from the ancient heaven and
earth of their passible being, had passed to the state of
impassibility. Gone were the rigors of justice, and
blessed rest was attained. The winter of troubles had
fled (Cant. 2, 11) and the eternal springtime of joy and
delight had come. The first earth and heaven of all the
mortals had also vanished; for the celestial Jerusalem
had been barred and locked during five thousand two hun
dred years, so that none could enter and all the mortals
would have been confined to the old sin-stained earth, if
through the entrance of Christ and his most blessed
Mother these bars and locks had not been shattered and
the divine justice had not been satisfied.
17. In an especial sense the most blessed Mary was a
new heaven and earth and new earth by ascending with
her Son, the Savior Jesus, and by taking possession at his
right hand in the glory of body and soul without having
passed through the death common to all the sons of men.
Although even in her human condition upon earth She
was a heaven, whence She saw the Divinity; but this
condition of the great Lady passed away, to take the place
of another condition, making Her, by an admirable dis
position of the divine Providence, a new heaven, in
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