Contributed by Malcolm Rogers on Apr 14, 2016
Where are our true origins? We can only be free from death and law and the need to justify ourselves when we realise that our real mother is not from this world, but that we are children of the heavenly Jerusalem, of the promise of God
Paul writes, ‘The other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free and she is our mother’ (Galatians 4.26)
It is strange language. Why not ‘home’? It would make more sense
But when Paul talks about ‘our mother’, he is speaking of our origins.
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