The Heavenly City
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Jerusalem brought down from heaven · Jerusalem which is above · our mother on high · the glorified and exceedingly bright city · the great and wonderful plain · the heavenly city
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Adversus Marcionem
The eschatological city descending from heaven, promised for the resurrection of the saints, distinct from earthly Jerusalem.
namely, after the resurrection, for a thousand years, in the city of divine workmanship, Jerusalem brought down from heaven, which the apostle too designates as our mother on high;
I recognise the heavenly substances themselves — even Jerusalem which is above — marvelling at these things already then foreseen, and announcing through Isaiah, Who are these that fly hither like clouds, and like doves with their young to me?
Barlaam and Josaphat
The radiant heavenly city seen in Josaphat's dream-vision after Barlaam's burial.
" "In this great and beautiful city," he said;
And he sees those awesome men whom he had seen before coming to him, and leading him away to that great and wonderful plain, and bringing him into that glorified and exceedingly bright city.