Thrones And Kingdoms

Et dabit illi Dominus Deus sedem David patris ejus Et si quempiam movet, quomodo hic sedere dicatur super solium et regnum David, cum ipse David non sederit rex super solium et regnum illius coelestis Jerusalem, neque Christus super hanc terrenam Jersusalem rex sedisse legatur; praesertim cum ipse dicat Pilato: Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo: quia si de oc mundo esset, utique ministri mei decertarent ne traderer Judaeis. Dicimus ergo hanc civitatem Jerusalem, illius figuram coelestis habuisse, et hoc regnum illius schema gessisse. Ac per hoc in eo regno illud jam inerat per figuram, sicut in isto terreno illud coeleste quodammodo fuisse videtur per umbram. Sed umbram jam exinanita cernitur, ut lux vera succederet; et figura tunc viguit, ut veritas interea celaretur, donec plenitudo temporlis veniret. Et ideo sane recte dicimus Christum super solium David sedisse, quia in solio David jam regnam Christi inerat per figuram, super quod eumdem David tunc sedisse, nemo qui recte sapit ambigit. In quod profecto Christus regnum veniens carnem de semine ipsius suscepit, evacuavit futurorum umbras, et sedit super claritatem lucis quae tunc intus in regno latebat; ac per hoc civitas illa non eget sole vel luna, quia lucerna quae diu repromittebatur de semine David, jam in ea lucet; et lux illa ipse est Agnus, diu in figura pro populo immolatus. Sanctus Paschasius Radbertus Corbeiensis, Expositio In Evangelium Matthaei, Liber I, Caput I Source: Migne PL 120.69b-d

And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David. 1 If anyone is troubled at how it could be said that he sits on the throne and kingdom of David, when David himself shall not sit as king on the throne and kingdom of that heavenly Jerusalem, nor did Christ sit as king over this terrestrial Jerusalem, and certainly He says to Pilate: 'My kingdom is not of this world, because if it were of this world, then my servants would fight lest I be given over to the Jews,' 2 we say then that this city of Jerusalem is a figure of the heavenly one, 3 and this kingdom is a form of the other, and through it one kingdom can be understood as the other, through a figure, as in this world the heavenly one appears as a shadow. But the shadow is now seen without detail, so that when the true light comes, then the figure becomes apparent, while the truth is yet hidden until the fulness of time shall come. Therefore quite rightly do we say that Christ sat on the throne of David, because by the throne of David the kingdom on Christ is given as a figure, upon which throne David once did sit, which no one who thinks rightly doubts. Into which kingdom coming Christ took up flesh from his seed, and dispelled the shadows of the future, and He sits amid the brightness of light which then was hidden in the kingdom, and because of this that city will have no moon or sun, because its lamp, which was promised through the seed of David, now shines in it, and that light is the Lamb Himself, which in a figure was sacrificed for the people. 4 Saint Paschasius Radbertus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 1, Chapter 1 1 Lk 1.32 2 Jn 18.36 3 Apoc 21.2 4 Apoc 22.5