“O desert, bright with the flowers of Christ! O solitude whence come the stones of which…”
O desert, bright with the flowers of Christ! O solitude whence come the stones of which, in the Apocalypse, the city of the great king is built!
Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter XIV, 10
Written from the Syrian desert to Heliodorus, who had turned back from it. Jerome is arguing that the wilderness is not an absence but a city — the one Revelation builds out of precious stones.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in Fremantle, Lewis & Martley, NPNF series 2 vol. 6 (1893) · W. H. Fremantle, M.A., with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley
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