17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
G2414
Ἱεροσόλυμα
Hierosoluma
hee-er-os-ol'-oo-mah
Noun Location
of Hebrew origin (H3389); Hierosolyma (i.e. Jerushalaim}, the capitol of Palestine:--Jerusalem. Compare G2419.
Jerusalem = "set ye double peace"
- denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants
- "the Jerusalem that now is", with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location
- "Jerusalem that is above", that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built
- metaph. "the City of God founded by Christ", now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom
- "the heavenly Jerusalem", that is the heavenly abode of God, Christ, the angels, saints of the Old and New Testament periods and those Christians that are alive at Christ's return
- "the New Jerusalem", a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed
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