The “physical details” of the new jerusalem are given in exhausting detail in Revelations, but this is well understood by scholars to be rife with symbolic and

The “physical details” of the new jerusalem are given in exhausting detail in Revelations, but this is well understood by scholars to be rife with symbolic and numerological intent and was not likely to have been intended by john of patmos to be understood as representing any material place. Plato, fond of such rhetorical devices himself, is more than likely to be following a similar game.