Léctio libri Apocalýpsis beáti Ioánnis apóstoli (21,9b-14)
Locútus est angelus mecum dicens: “Veni, osténdam tibi sponsam uxórem Agni.” Et sústulit me in spíritu super montem magnum et altum et osténdit mihi civitátem sanctam Ierusálem descendéntem de cælo a Deo, habéntem claritátem Dei; lumen eíus símile lápidi pretiosíssimo, tamquam lápidi iáspidi, in modum crystálli; et habébat murum magnum et altum et habébat portas duódecim et super portas ángelos duódecim et nómina inscrípta, quæ sunt duódecim tríbuum filiórum Israel. Ab oriénte portæ tres, et ab aquilóne portæ tres, et ab austro portæ tres, et ab occásu portæ tres; et murus civitátis habens fundaménta duódecim, et super ipsis duódecim nómina duódecim apostólorum Agni.
There came one of the seven angels, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal. And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
