The Preachers' Garden of the Triumphant City of Jerusalem

of Considerations.

what the number indicates. chap. 3. 45
What also the number one hundred, forty, and four indicates. chap. 4. 46
In the number one hundred, forty, and four, the protection of those reigning is shown. chap. 5. ibid.
The number four indicates the protection of the Church Militant, but forty-four [indicates that] of the Church Suffering. chap. 6. 47
Why the Church Triumphant still requires Divine protection. chap. 7. 48
How Divine wisdom measures the wall of this City in cubits. chap. 8. ibid.
Why the city is measured in stadia, but the wall in cubits. chap. 9. 49
How the measure of the angle is the stature of a man. chap. 10. 50

DISCOURSE XI.

What the structure of this wall signifies; how it is built of jasper: what this jasper is; how this City is pure; in how many ways the gold is pure; what this purity of glass is, and how the gold is pure like glass. 51
What the structure of this wall is, and the quality of the walls. chap. 1. ibid.
What this stone is. chap. 2. 52
What John saw in this City shown to him. chap. 3. 53
What pure gold is, the material from which this City is built. chap. 4. 54
The difference between the holiness of the Church Militant, the Church Suffering, and the Church Triumphant. chap. 5. ibid.
In how many ways the Church Triumphant is most pure. chap. 6. 55

DISCOURSE XII.

Concerning the two kinds and three orders of mystical stones; how many are the qualities of precious stones, mystical and non-mystical; and what the

foundations of the supreme City are; and how they are adorned with every precious stone. 56
Concerning the double mystical stone. chap. 1. ibid.
How the intellectual creature is adorned by God. chap. 2. 57
Why only twelve precious stones are named here. chap. 3. 58
What these stones signify. chap. 4. ibid.

DISCOURSE XIII.

How one gate of the City can be made from a small pearl; why the holiness and exceeding purity of the gates of the Church Triumphant are expressed through pearls, but the multitude and holiness of the Church Militant and its members through snow; and why the gates of the same City are of pearls, but the foundations are of many precious stones. 59
How one gate is made from a pearl. chap. 1. ibid.
What the whiteness of the pearl indicates. chap. 2. 60
Why the perfection of the gates of the Church Triumphant is likened to a pearl, but the washing of the Church Militant from sin is compared to snow. chap. 3. 61
Why the holiness of the gates of the Church Triumphant is compared to a pearl, but that of the penitent and perfect of the Church Militant to snow. chap. 4. 62
Why the material of the gates is single, but that of the foundations is divided into twelve. chap. 5. 59

DISCOURSE XIV.

What the street of that heavenly city is, its court and magistrate; what business is there, and what pure gold is. 59
That there are two kinds of streets in that City. chap. 1. ibid.
What business is conducted in these streets. chap. 2. ibid.