Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

He does not say this with any thought of an erratic Aeon, or of any other power which departed from the Pleroma, or of Prunicus, but of the Jerusalem which has been delineated on [God's] hands. And in the Apocalypse John saw this new [Jerusalem] descending upon the new earth.[325]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book III "let down from heaven,"[355]

Revelation of Saint John the Theologian

And then the heavens shall be rent from the rising of the sun even to the setting, and an innumerable multitude of angels shall come down to the earth; and then the treasures of the heavens shall be opened, and they shall bring down every precious thing, and the perfume of incense, and they shall bring down to the earth Jerusalem robed like a bride.[29]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

of Paul and of those like unto him, so there maybe a mother of others after the analogy of Jerusalem, the mother, for example, of Syene in Egypt, orSidon, or as many cities as are named in the Scriptures. Then, as Jerusalem is "a bride adorned forher husband,"[99]

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