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New Jerusalem
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New Jerusalem Christianity
heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
New Jerusalem
new paradise; dwelling of God among men. [N.T.: Revelation 21:2]
See : Heaven
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The first son Ishmael of the bondwoman represented Jerusalem, which is now in bondage, which also represents the old covenant, but the freewoman's son Isaac represents the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the new covenant.
Children of Promise by evangelist billy bolitho / General interest community
Among other claims, Geonget proposes that Pantagruelism is more Christian than Stoic (disagreeing with Screech), and based on epikeia (equity); that the name Bacbuc in the Fifth Book includes the syllable buc, which means perplexity in Hebrew, and should be related to the witch Baboue; that agilles is a key word for Evangelicals and for Rabelais; and that we are intended to see the Abbey of Thelema as the Heavenly Jerusalem, and in a sense as the center of the world.
La notion de perplexite a la Renaissance by Bowen, Barbara C. / Renaissance Quarterly
Here he is on Israel's schizophrenia: '[Israel] inhabits parallel worlds, like the earthly and heavenly Jerusalem of the Jewish sages.
Israelis and Palestinians -- one land, two peoples by Foster, Charles / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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