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单词 City of God
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Definition of City of God in English:

City of God

proper noun
  • 1Paradise, perceived as an ideal community in heaven.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Christianity, the early expectation of Christ's imminent return to this world was replaced by the theologian St Augustine of Hippo's allegorical model of an other-worldly City of God.
    • We know that the peace of Heaven, the City of God, awaits and cannot be constructed by man.
    • God's original creation is thus renewed and transformed, but not annihilated, in the heavenly City of God.
    • Then, through Divine grace, you will be safely guided and guarded throughout the voyage of life; and, in due time, you will be landed triumphantly and blissfully upon the shores of the Eternal City of God.
    • The City of Man is a world of profound imperfection, peopled by fallen, sinful beings who can only hope for ultimate citizenship in the City of God through an earthly life of piety.
    • The City of God was invisible - it was not of this earth.
    • It is linked to the biblical vision that the human community should be a likeness, however dim, of the City of God.
    • Let my soul be called into thy presence, for I have come to the City of God.
    1. 1.1 The Christian Church.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has witnessed something similar, something - dare I say it - more important: the attempted destruction of the Church, the City of God, the Body of Christ on earth.
      • But it is also a picture of the work God is doing in the restoration of His Church - the spiritual City of God.
 
 

Definition of City of God in US English:

City of God

proper noun
  • 1Paradise, perceived as an ideal community in heaven.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • God's original creation is thus renewed and transformed, but not annihilated, in the heavenly City of God.
    • In Christianity, the early expectation of Christ's imminent return to this world was replaced by the theologian St Augustine of Hippo's allegorical model of an other-worldly City of God.
    • We know that the peace of Heaven, the City of God, awaits and cannot be constructed by man.
    • The City of Man is a world of profound imperfection, peopled by fallen, sinful beings who can only hope for ultimate citizenship in the City of God through an earthly life of piety.
    • Then, through Divine grace, you will be safely guided and guarded throughout the voyage of life; and, in due time, you will be landed triumphantly and blissfully upon the shores of the Eternal City of God.
    • It is linked to the biblical vision that the human community should be a likeness, however dim, of the City of God.
    • The City of God was invisible - it was not of this earth.
    • Let my soul be called into thy presence, for I have come to the City of God.
    1. 1.1 The Christian Church.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has witnessed something similar, something - dare I say it - more important: the attempted destruction of the Church, the City of God, the Body of Christ on earth.
      • But it is also a picture of the work God is doing in the restoration of His Church - the spiritual City of God.
 
 
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