Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Mais la Jérusalem d'en haut est libre, c'est notre mère;
KJV
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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qua Apostolus dicit : Quoe autem sursum est Je- rusalem, libera est, quoe est mater omnium nostrum (Galat. 4. 26.). Sicut et ad Hebraeos iterum a dicit : Decebat enim eum propter quem omnia, per quem omnia, qui multos filios in gloriam adduxerat, auctorem salutis eorum per passio…
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μῖν ἔγραψεν ἐπιστολάς, εἰς ἃς ἐὰν ἐγκύπτητε, δυνηθήσεσθε οἰκοδομεῖσθαι εἰς τὴν δοθεῖσαν ὑμῖν πίστιν: Gal 4, 26 ἥτις ἐστὶν μήτηρ πάντων ἡμῶν, ἐπακολουθούσης τῆς ἐλπίδος, προαγούσης τῆς ἀγάπης τῆς εἰς θεὸν καὶ Χριστὸν καὶ εἰς τὸν πλησίον. ἐὰν γάρ τις τούτων ἐντὸς ᾖ, πεπλήρωκεν ἐντο…
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πατὴρ αὐτῷ τιμῷτό τε καὶ σέβοιτο. τὸν δὲ ὑπερουράνιον χῶρον καὶ τὰ ἐκεῖαε τῶν τῇδε παραδείγματα τήν Gal. 4, 26 τε ἄνω λεγομένην Ἰερουααλὴμ καὶ τὸ Σιὼν ὄρος Heb. 12, 22.23 τὸ ἐπουράνιον καὶ τὴν ὑπερκόσμιον πόλιν τοῦ ζῶντος θεοῦ, ἐν ᾖ μυριάδες ἀγγέλων πανηγύρεις καὶ ἐκκλησία πρωτοτ…
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