Definition of Heavenly city

1. Noun. Phrases used to refer to Heaven. "The Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'"

Exact synonyms: Celestial City, City Of God, Holy City
Generic synonyms: Heaven

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavenly City

Heaney
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Hearn
Hearst
Heart Break Kid
Heart of Dixie
Heath-Edwards grades
Heath Robinson
Heathenry
Heather
Heathrow
Heathrow injection
Heaven
Heavenly City
Heavenly Father
Heavenly Jewel
Heavens
Heaviside
Heaviside layer
Heaviside unit function
Heavy Ion Beams
Heb.
Hebb's rule
Hebbel
Hebbian
Hebdomum
Hebe
Hebei

Literary usage of Heavenly city

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"In 12г-':4, the climax of his appeal, he depicts the heavenly city, ... Further, the description of the heavenly city supposes that there is built up of the ..."

2. The City of God by Augustine, Marcus Dods (1871)
"One portion of the earthly city became an image of the heavenly city, not having a significance of its own, but signifying another city, and therefore ..."

3. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer (1920)
"With regard to this heavenly city there can be no question us to the hour ... This second heavenly city does not appear till the first heaven and the first ..."

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