XXI, 17); because man is brought to that height of glory in which the angels rejoice to be made firm. The breadth therefore of the building is as great as the height, because whichever of the elect now labor in the lowest places shall at some time not be unequal to those most blessed spirits. But let us amid these things return to the mind, and with all the marrow of our heart love God and neighbor. Let us be enlarged in the affection of charity, that we may be exalted in the glory of loftiness. Let us have compassion through love on the neighbor, that we may be joined through knowledge to God. Let us condescend to the least brethren on earth, that we may be made equal to the angels in heaven; because the man who signs the Redeemer by his image measures the breadth of the building with one reed, the height also with one reed.
Now therefore He measures our manners, weighs our works, considers our thoughts, that afterwards without end He may render recompense—Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten of the Father, who lives and reigns with Him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.