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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
And he measured, it says, its wall at a hundred and forty-four cubits by the measure of a man, which is that of an angel. In many places, according to the customary usage of the divine Scripture, men are called angels. And this is clear from those passages in which Gabriel the Archangel is interpreted as a man of God (see Dan. 9:21). And the prophet said, "You will save men and beasts, O Lord" (Ps. 36:6): men indeed are called angels, beasts the men; for despite the mind of the angels we men happen to be irrational and brute. …
Western Saints
Bede
The measure of a man, which is an angel's. The Church, which is gathered from men and elevated by the promises of Christ, hopes to attain the equality of angels. As for the literal sense, it signifies that the angel appeared to him in the form of a man.
Bonaventure
For if they are led twelve by twelve, they will be a hundred and forty-four, that is, the number of the City of Jerusalem. And so, a soul hierarchized in this way is a city in which God lives and is seen. John says of this: "He took me up in spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem." And in the same chapter, he says that it was measured "to twelve thousand stadia." And, later, that "the length and the height and the breadth of it are equal." And that the measure of the wall was "a hundred and …
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