‹The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.›
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
le mystère des sept étoiles que tu as vues dans ma main droite, et des sept chandeliers d'or. Les sept étoiles sont les anges des sept Eglises, et les sept chandeliers sont les sept Eglises.
KJV
‹The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.›
Hieronymus
Epistolae
m Domini acces surus humiliet? Et hi sunt, quos in Apocalypsi legi mus, septem angeli Ecclesiarum (Apoc. 1,20), hi sunt septem candelabra aurea, hi voces tonitruorum, hi in similitudinem Noe sacramentorum justitiæ prae cones, non habentes in se maculam aut rugam : at que in c…
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
ymbolizes the universal Church, as depicted in Revelation by the seven churches and seven lampstands Revelation 1:20. Orions, rising in winter, represent the holy martyrs who endured persecution and emerged into heaven. The Hyades are named after the Greek letter y because they…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
0882D] Ecclesiae, ut in Apocalypsi: «Septem candelabra septem Ecclesiae sunt [Note: [Col. 0881] 33 Apoc. I, 20.] .» Candor est innocentia, ut in Cantico: «Dilectus meus candidus [Note: [Col. 0881] 34 Cant. V, 10.] ,» id est, a peccato purus. Candor, decor patriae coelestis,…
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