Celestial City
Americannoun
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the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
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In that book, the pilgrim extricates himself from the Slough of Despond—essentially a giant water hazard—and makes his way to the aptly named Celestial City.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 17, 2018
But, unlike the stricken Christian, Van Dyk does not reach his Celestial City.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2016
This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
The Celestial City, he said he should die if he came not to it, and yet was dejected at every difficulty and stumbled at every straw.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
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