Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

which, if you carefully study, you will find to be the means of building you up in that faith which has been given you, and which, being followed by hope, and preceded by love towards God, and Christ, and our neighbour, "is the mother of us all."[23]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

And the apostle, too, writing to the Galatians, says in like manner, "But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all."[324]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book III

which the apostle also calls "our mother from above; "[356]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

I find it was in their foresight of all this, that the heavenly intelligences gazed with admiration on "the Jerusalem which is above,"[716]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V "If ye hasten to fly out of Egypt, and repair beyond the Red Sea into the wilderness," that is, from earthly intercourse to the Jerusalem above, which is the mother of the living;[65]

The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

through "the Jerusalem above"?[37]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

And corresponding, I think, "to the Jerusalem above, which is free, the mother"[173]

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