Jerusalem widowed of the Word; the perfect soul

As far as the wording it fits for Jerusalem to be understood as said with amazement because of the change unto the gloomier—sitting isolated who once was full of people—so that the isolation may be her desolation, having had as husband the living Word as protector when she followed him present and helping, but widowed and left behind by him because of the things she had sinned. And after other things: These things then toward the literal; toward the sense, Jerusalem flourishing and full of people and nations and ruling countries is the divine soul. And it is not amazing if not only a house nor a farmstead nor the village greater than this being named, nor an ordinary city, but one differing from all cities and honored beside God, is called Jerusalem—the perfect soul—greatness of notable size being thrown around her as around the greatest city by wisdom and every virtue multiplying buildings. And after a little: And just as it is possible to see Jerusalem flourishing, multiplying with people and nations and ruling in countries, so—if virtue is liable to fall—sometimes seeing her isolated and widowed and enslaved, so as even to pay tributes to the enemy who has mastered her, according to the soul of the one who has fallen from the truth.