Translation:The Book of the Holy Places/12

Chapter XII other top of the column in that set in a place where, by the Cross of the Lord laid upon it, dead is alive again the youth is. He is from some very top of the column that is in the holy places, to the north, standing in the midst of the city to meet as they go to is had, we must briefly discuss. This is the same in him the pillar of the statutes of the place, where he died a young man, the cross of the Lord on top of it come to life again, it is strange in the manner of the summer solstice up in the time of noon is the sun of heaven to the center of the shadow of arriving does not make. But at midsummer and have crossed, which is the day before the Kalends 8. Of July, for three days interjected, little by little the shadow of the day is waning, the first he does a brief, Then they came out of the days of a more distant. This, therefore, the pillar, the of the sun than the glory of the summer solstice up in the At the midday rest at the center of who is standing from the region of the heavens from above, out of every circumfulgens [0788A] surrounded by part of the surveys, as best, of the world to Jerusalem, in the midst of the earth bears witness to be placed. Hence, for the sake of the holy Psalmist, and passion and resurrection of places to which the within the power the Aelia [That is to say, Jerusalem] are contained, he sings of this prophecy against: "God is our king before ulum were more often, wrought salvation in the midst of the earth '(Ps. 68), that is, Jerusalem, which" the interior of the earth and the umbilical cord it is said.