Zion
place · 4 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
daughter of Zion · the daughters of Zion · the faithful city · the mourners of Zion
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Prophetic site from which the new law is foretold to issue.
Long ago Isaiah proclaims that a law would go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem — another law, surely, and another word.
Certainly he evangelizes to Zion and Jerusalem peace and all good things;
"to give to the mourners of Zion glory, and for ashes the joyfulness of ointment, and the garment of glory for the spirit of weariness.
Letters
The 'faithful city' lamented as having become a harlot, a scriptural figure applied to the fallen virgin.
"How has the faithful city, Zion, become a harlot?
Stromata
City named in the quoted psalm, read allegorically.
"Go round about Zion and encompass her;
Adversus Judaeos
The city/mount from which, per Isaiah, the new law is foretold to go forth, also foretold to be left desolate.
Your land is deserted, your cities burned with fire, your region strangers shall devour before your face, and the daughter of Zion shall be left deserted and overthrown by foreign peoples, like a hut in a vineyard, like a watch-post in a cucumber field, and like a city under siege.