Babylon

Capital of the Babylonian Empire; heard the voice of the exiled saints of Judah on the banks of its rivers.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Babylon hears, on the banks of its rivers, the voice of the saints it knows not

  "Babylon hears, on the banks of its rivers, the voice of the saints it knows not"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — "Daughter of Babylon" as a catachrestic expression meaning the city of Babylon itself

  ""daughter of Babylon" is the city of Babylon, that is, Babylon itself"

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — The fall of the king of Babylon described through the fall of Lucifer

  "describes the fall of the king of Babylon through the fall of Lucifer"

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — The Babylonian liberation as a type prefiguring spiritual liberation

  "namely the Egyptian and the Babylonian"

• Sacred Chronology — Babylonian captivity and destruction of Jerusalem in the sacred chronology

  "Years from the beginning of the world to the Babylonian captivity and destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar"

• Sacred Chronology — Babylon captured by Cyrus

  "From there to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus"

Related

• Jerusalem