medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: "Grover Zinn (imap)" <[log in to unmask]>
> Interesting passage from the Life of Constantine. However, I think that
Eusebius needs to be read here in a more literal than "figurative" sense (the
figurative sense being what the earlier discussion was about, it seems to me;
i.e. churches as the "New Jerusalem" plus refs to texts in the Apocalypse).
I'm writing this without looking anything up, but if I recall correctly, the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre faced the abandoned and destroyed (with ruins
still there) Temple site. So "New' (read Christian) Jerusalem literally faced
"Old" (read Jewish) Jerusalem that was in ruins.
> I may be off on a tangent, but I do think Eusebius is thinking in very
"concrete" (with the Romans, perhaps not a pun, given their building with
concrete) terms, with the new Church and the demolished Temple.
of course, later generations --or even contemporaries who might not have been
aware of Jerusalem topography-- might have missed the Literal Sense and only
seen the Figurative one.
an interesting inversion of the "normal" process.
c
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