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52 CITY OF GOD
the divine justice. Thus in the future times (which are
the present ones for us), God shall punish men with
greater rigor, sending upon them the plagues reserved
for the rapidly approaching days of the final judgment.
Let the reader refer to paragraph 266 in the first part.
25. "And he took me up in spirit t,o a great and high
mountain ;
and he showed me the holy city of Jerusalem
coming down out of heaven from God." I was raised by
the power of God to a high mountain of exalted intelli
gence and enlightenment concerning the hidden sacra
ments, and in this state I saw the Bride of the Lamb, his
Woman, like the city of Jerusalem; the Bride of the
Lamb, on account of her likeness in reciprocal love to
Him, who took away the sins of the world (John 1, 29) ;
his Woman, because She accompanied Him inseparably
through all his works and wonders, and because for Her
He came forth from the bosom of his eternal Father to
have his delight with the children of men, who were the
brethren of this Bride and, through Her, also his own
brethren. I saw Her also as the city of Jerusalem, who
enclosed Him within herself and afforded Him a spa
cious habitation, though He cannot be encompassed by
heaven or earth ;
and because He placed in that City the
temple and the propitiatory, where He wished to be
sought and propitiated by mankind. And although on
earth She humiliated and prostrated Herself beneath the
feet of all, as if She had been the least of creatures, I
saw Her raised on high to the throne and the right hand
of her Onlybegotten, whence She again descended, pros
perous and bountiful, to enrich the faithful children of
the Church.
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