Galatians 4:26 (WEB)
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Catechism · 3
The Moral Law
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“By the Holy Spirit's power and her faith, her virginity became uniquely fruitful.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 1:26-38; Rom 4:18-21; Gal 4:26-28.
The Church in God's Plan
“It is she whom Christ 'loved and for whom he delivered himself up that he might sanctify her.' It is she whom he unites to himself by an unbreakable alliance, and whom he constantly 'nourishes and cherishes.'"” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. Gal 4:26; Rev 12:17; 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17; Eph 5:25-26, 29.
Fathers and councils · 44
Augustine of Hippo
“We believe that He Ascended into Heaven, which place of blessedness He has likewise promised unto us, saying, “They shall be as the angels in the heavens,” in that city which is the mother of us all, the Jerusalem eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26
Read the whole comment“…not concerning a person pertaining to Egypt, or to Jericho, or to Babylon, or still to Jerusalem itself, the earthly, which is in bondage with her children; but concerning a citizen of that city which is above and free, our mother, eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25, 26
Read the whole comment“…certain created wisdom was created before all things, the rational and intellectual mind of that chaste city of Thine, our mother which is above, and is free, and “eternal in the heavens” (in what heavens, unless in those that praise Thee, the “heaven of heavens,” because this also is the “heaven of heavens,” which…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…and sing there unto Thee songs of love,—groaning with groaning unutterable in my pilgrimage, and remembering Jerusalem, with heart raised up towards it, Jerusalem my country, Jerusalem my mother, and Thyself, the Ruler over it, the Enlightener, the Father, the Guardian, the Husband, the chaste and strong…” — editor's note: Baxter has a noteworthy passage on our heavenly citizenship in his Saints’ Rest: “As Moses, before he died, went up into Mount Nebo, to take a survey of the…
Read the whole comment“Jerusalem, which is our free mother, because the same also is Thy holy Temple: from that Temple then, “to Thee kings shall offer presents.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“But now in that which followeth, “they have made Jerusalem for a keeping of apples;” even the Church herself is rightly understood under this name, even the free Jerusalem our mother, concerning whom hath been written, “many more are the sons of the forsaken, than of her that hath the husband.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…resemblance as a shadow to that Sion of which he presently speaketh, that Heavenly Jerusalem, of which the Apostle saith, “which is the mother of us all;” they might not be said to bear no relation to Sion, on the ground that they did not belong to the Jewish people, he addresses them thus: “Now therefore ye are…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…blamed for scorning that land, whose temporal kingdom we also ought to esteem as nothing, that we may love that Jerusalem which is free, the mother of us all, which is in heaven, and truly to be desired.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“But they who there understood the figure, even then were heirs of the New Covenant; for “Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our everlasting mother in heaven.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 25, 26.
Read the whole comment“Let therefore the slave purchased at so great a price confess his condition, and say, “Behold, O Lord, how that I am Thy servant: “I am Thy servant, and the son of Thine handmaid” (ver. 16).…This, therefore, is the son of the heavenly Jerusalem, which is above, the free mother of us all.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“God forbid that he should think of that Jerusalem, who so loveth, who so burneth, who so longeth to reach that Jerusalem, “our Mother,” of which the Apostle saith, that She is “eternal in the Heavens.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“She it is that hath given us birth, she is the Church of the saints, she hath nourished us, she, who is in part a pilgrim, in part abiding in the heavens.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…not to deny that this is the gift of God, we are thus to understand that there be some gifts of God possessed by the sons of that Jerusalem which is above, and free, and mother of us all, (for these are in some sort the hereditary possessions in which we are “heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ:”) but some…” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26
Read the whole comment“There Jerusalem was founded, that most celebrated city of God, which, while in bondage, served as a sign of the free city, which is called the heavenly Jerusalem which latter term is a Hebrew word, and signifies by interpretation the ‘vision of peace.’” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. iv. 26
Read the whole comment“But that Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–26
Read the whole comment“…was signified, composed of holy angels and blessed spirits, the city of which the apostle says, “Jerusalem which is above is our eternal mother in heaven;” and in another place, “For ye are all the children of the light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“And we, brethren, are not children of the bond woman, but of the free, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–31.
Read the whole comment“Then in a little while the bond maid was cast out of the house with her son; and, according to the apostle, these two women signify the old and new covenants,—Sarah representing that of the Jerusalem which is above, that is, the city of God.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 24–26.
Read the whole comment“…to God in the earth: but there are some things among them which are understood to pertain to both,—to the bond maid properly, to the free woman figuratively.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
Read the whole comment“By “Jerusalem,” too, we should understand not that which serves with her children, but that which, according to the apostle, is our free mother, eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“And thus we are made to understand that the intelligent creation, which constitutes the free Jerusalem, ought to be subordinate in the order of speech to the Creator, the Supreme Trinity: for all that is said of the man Christ Jesus has reference, of course, to the unity of the person of the Only-begotten.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26
Read the whole comment“Hence, that Jerusalem on earth was the shadow of the heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of us all, which is in heaven; and these are the apostle’s words.” — editor's note: Gen. xxi. 10; Gal. iv. 22–30.
Read the whole comment“…to the Jerusalem that is free, our eternal mother in heaven, the spiritual Sarah, who casteth out the bond maid and her children from the house of liberty.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–31.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And the apostle, too, writing to the Galatians, says in like manner, “But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…loved the Church and gave Himself for it, and all the rest,) and is a figure and copy of Jerusalem which is above, which is free, and the mother of us all; which before was barren, but now has many children.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History Martyrs of.11Martyrs of Palestine
“But he gave a second answer similar to the former, saying that Jerusalem was his country, meaning that of which Paul says, “Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our mother,” and, “Ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment “But the region above the heavens, with the models of earthly things which are there, and the so-called Jerusalem above, and the heavenly Mount of Zion, and the supramundane city of the living God, in which innumerable choirs of angels and the Church of the first born, whose…” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. iv. 26
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.8Conference XIV
“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry, thou that travailest not, for many are the children of the desolate more than of her that hath an husband.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–27.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24Conference XXIV
“And this also Ecclesiastes has pretty significantly expressed saying: “The labour of fools wearies those who know not how to go to the city;” viz., that “heavenly Jerusalem, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Eccl. x. 15 (LXX.); Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment “For this cause, I say, He has left his father and mother, i.e., God from whom He was begotten and that “Jerusalem which is the mother of us all,” and has cleaved to human flesh, as to his wife.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“The apostle, again, makes a similar revelation respecting Jerusalem, saying, “The Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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“Again, the apostle teaches regarding Jerusalem as follows: “The Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
“In a mystical sense, also, the Lord approaches Jerusalem, which is ‘the vision of peace,’ in which happiness remains fixed and unmoved, being, as the Apostle says, the mother of all believers. [Gal 4:26]” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Now the mother of whom this is said is the heavenly Jerusalem.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…village, mountain, river, hill-torrent, and boundary which he dealt with, marked out the spiritual realms of the heavenly Jerusalem, that is, of the church.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…which is made glad by the streams of the river, which is set upon a mountain and so cannot be hid, which the apostle declares to be a mother of the saints, and in which he rejoices to have his citizenship with the righteous.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“They speak of us as claytowners, made out of dirt, brutish and carnal, because, say they, we refuse to receive the things of the spirit; but of course they themselves are citizens of Jerusalem and their mother is in heaven.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“Hagar and Sarah, or Sinai and Zion, are typical of the two testaments.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 22–26.
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Tertullian
“What that digamy of Abraham portends, the same apostle fully teaches, the interpreter of each testament, just as he likewise lays it down that our “seed” is called in Isaac.” — editor's note: See Gal. iv. 21–31.
Read the whole comment“…the resurrection for a thousand years in the divinely-built city of Jerusalem, “let down from heaven,” which the apostle also calls “our mother from above;” and, while declaring that our πολίτευμα , or citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is really a city in heaven.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
Read the whole comment“…the promise of (Christ’s) holy church; by reason of which he adds in conclusion: “So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 21–26, 31.
Read the whole comment“I find it was in their foresight of all this, that the heavenly intelligences gazed with admiration on “the Jerusalem which is above,” and by the mouth of Isaiah said long ago: “Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with their young ones, unto me?”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…may be no stumblingblock or hindrance for the people in the divine road and entrance, now, to the temples made with hands, but soon after, to Jerusalem above, and the Holy of holies there, which will, I know, be the end of suffering and struggle to those who here bravely travel on the way.” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…out of Egypt, and repair beyond the Red Sea into the wilderness,” that is, from earthly intercourse to the Jerusalem above, which is the mother of the living; “If, moreover, again you return into Egypt,” that is, into earthly intercourse, “ye shall die as men.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 26.
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Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
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Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 33.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in Confessions XII.16.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion V.14.
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Cited together in Jerome on Mark 11:1–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
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Cited together in Jerome on Mark 11:1–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 11:1–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.12.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in The City of God XV.2.
Cited together in Confessions XII.15.