Judea
place · 2 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
cities of Judea
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The land whose desolation fulfills prophecy and over which a heavenly-city portent later appeared.
"For the Lord of Sabaoth has taken away from Judea and from Jerusalem, among the rest, both the prophet and the wise architect" — namely the Holy Spirit, who builds the Church, namely the temple and house and city of God.
For it is established, by heathen witnesses too, that in Judea, for forty days, in the early hours of the morning, a city hung from heaven, the whole fabric of its walls vanishing with the advance of the day, and at other times nothing near at hand.
This I have not omitted for this reason, that the Christ of Marcion ought to have foresworn all commerce even with the familiar places of the Christ of the Creator — having so many towns of Judea not so emancipated to the Christ of the Creator through the prophets.
The Rights of War and Peace
Region of the Jews cited to explain a hyperbolic scriptural usage relevant to refuting universal dominion.
Thus in the scriptures we find Judea frequently called the whole inhabited earth;