Now I beheld in my dream, that they talked more in their sleep at this time than ever they did in all their journey; and being in a muse thereabout, the gardener said even to me, Wherefore musest thou at the matter? It is the nature of the fruit of the grapes of these vineyards to go down so sweetly, as to cause the lips of them that are asleep to speak. 526

So I saw that when they awoke, they addressed themselves to go up to the city. But, as I said, the reflection of the sun upon the city (for “the city was pure gold,” 527 ) was so extremely glorious, that they could not, as yet, with open face behold it, but through an instrument made for that purpose. 528 So I saw, that as they went on, there met them two men, in raiment that shone like gold; also their faces shone as the light. 529