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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'"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavenly City
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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