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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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If I do not remember thee, / Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; / If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.
In earlier Christian tradition the Jerusalem above was the "mother of believers," but for the Judean monks the church of the earthly Jerusalem is the "mother of the churches.
 
 
 
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