“If, as I was saying, we are in the church, if we possess the faith of the church, of the apostles, of Christ, the truths of Christian teaching, we are the mountains of Zion. We do not want to be among the valleys of Zion; we want to be mountains of Zion. Zion, indeed, has its valleys; it has plains, too. The sinner is…”
Jerome, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 45 (PSALM 132)
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1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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— Isaiah 22:1 —
2Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.