{"id":1375,"date":"2026-06-04T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:25:14","slug":"%c2%a7-7-10-territorio-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/06\/04\/%c2%a7-7-10-territorio-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7\u00a07.10. Political territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">The vision of the New Jerusalem that John of Patmos records in the last two chapters of Revelation depicts the Holy City, the kingdom of God on earth, with a series of characteristics that relate it openly to the biblical idea of the Earthly Paradise. Like the Lydian and Persian gardens whose architecture survives in the <em>Chahar Bagh<\/em> style (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/05\/09\/\u00a7-6-7-chahar-bagh\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1210\" target=\"_self\">6.7<\/a>), the New Jerusalem is perfectly square and crossed by a river that runs along the city\u2019s main street. This river departs from the throne of God and of the Lamb and irrigates the tree of life, which lies on <em>both<\/em> shores. The appearance of this topology of the heavenly city confirms our intuition that the hunting ground, through the <em>paradeisos<\/em>, represents not only the union of the material and the spiritual, the concretion of the Kingdom in the world, but also the basic metaphor of the organization and domestication of the landscape and its conversion into political territory.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La visi\u00f3n de la Nueva Jerusal\u00e9n que Juan de Patmos consigna en los dos \u00faltimos cap\u00edtulos del Apocalipsis muestra a la Ciudad Celestial, reino de dios en la tierra, con una serie de caracter\u00edsticas que la relacionan abiertamente con la idea b\u00edblica del Para\u00edso Terrenal. Como los jardines lidios y persas cuya arquitectura sobrevive en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[786109463],"tags":[786109498,786109497,786109500,786109501],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitulo-7","tag-new-jerusalem","tag-nueva-jerusalen","tag-political-territory","tag-territorio-politico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-mb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}