Ἱεροσόλυμα

Jerusalem = &quot set ye double peace&quot , denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants, &quot the Jerusalem that now is&quot , with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location, &quot Jerusalem that is above&quot , that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built, metaph. &quot the City of God founded by Christ&quot , now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom, &quot the heavenly Jerusalem&quot , 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, &quot the New Jerusalem&quot , a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed