ACC ~ Revelation 1 v15a

HIS FEET ARE THE APOSTLES. VICTORINUS OF PETOVIUM: “His feet were like burnished bronze refined in a furnace.” He is speaking of the apostles, because refined through suffering they preached his word. For those through whom the proclamation is extended are properly called feet. And the prophet understood this beforehand in saying, “Let us worship where his feet have stood,” because where they as the first stood and established the church, namely, in Judea, there all the saints will come together and worship their God. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 1.5.

THE FEET ARE THE TWO NATURES AND THE HARMONY OF PREACHING. ANDREW OF CAESAREA: And the feet are also the foundations of the church. And they are “like bronze incense,” which, the medical people say, possesses a good smell when burned, and which is called by them masculine incense. There is another interpretation: since the bronze refers to the human nature and the incense refers to the divine nature, through these is indicated the sweet odor of the faith and the unconfusedness of the unity. Or another interpretation: the bronze shows the euphony of the proclamation, while the incense shows the conversion of the nations, from which the Bride is commanded to come. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 1.15.

THE FEET ARE THE HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST. APRINGIUS OF BEJA: The feet are the human nature which he possessed in himself which he assumed out of mercy for our salvation. For just as when copper ore is refined in a furnace there is no accretion or rusty buildup on the outside, so the most pure and perfect flesh of the assumed man, taken up by deity and remaining in deity, continues without any defect of human nature, without any guilt of the parent. TRACTATE ON THE APOCALYPSE 1.15.

THE FEET ARE THE CHURCH OF THE END TIME. BEDE: The phrase “feet refined by fire” refers to the church of the end time, which will be examined and tested by terrible afflictions. For indeed orichalcum is bronze, which is brought to a golden color by a very hot fire and added elements. Another translation, which renders with “like burnished bronze of Lebanon,” signifies that the church in Judea, in which Lebanon is a mountain, will be persecuted, especially at the end time. For even the temple is often referred to as “Lebanon,” for it is said to it, “Open, O Lebanon, your gates, and let fire consume your cedars.” EXPLANATION OF THE APOCALYPSE 1.15.

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