“Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:”
Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together.
Church Fathers on Psalms 122:3
1. As impure love inflames the mind, and summons the soul destined to perish to lust for earthly things, and to follow what is perishable, and precipitates it into lowest places, and sinks it into the abyss; so holy love raises us to heavenly things, and inflames us to what is eternal, and excites the soul to those things which do not pass away nor die, and from the abyss of hell raises it to heaven. Yet all love has a power of its own, nor can love in the soul of the lover…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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