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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
Blessed, he says, are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life. By robes he means the bodies. Blessed therefore are those who live well and cleanse themselves from every filth of sin; for those who so live will have authority to recline upon the tree of life and to rest upon it, the Lord is the tree of life, as was said before. And they may enter the city through the gates. …
Western Saints
Bede
And may enter through the gates into the city. Those who keep the Lord's commandments, saying: I am the door; if anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture (John X); undoubtedly enter through the gates into the Church. The gates of righteousness, which the Psalmist asks to be opened to him (Ps. CXVII). But whoever tries to climb up another way, that person is a thief and a robber (John X); concerning whom it is also said here:
Bonaventure
These seals, then, are found in a twofold perfection: a series of twelve, which is a number of abundance, and of a thousand, which derives from a multiplication of ten by itself in a perfect way. Indeed, ten times ten are a hundred, and ten times a hundred are a thousand. No one receives this signification, unless he is the one who has the "pebble, and upon the pebble a new name written, which no one knows except him who receives it." This is "the tree of life": there man enjoys life. …
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