Note 1189 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
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“Ista est Hierusalem, in medio gentium posui eam et in circuitu ejus terrae” (Ezekiel, v. 5). See also Ezekiel, xxxviii, 12. Jerome, Commentarius in Ezechielem, II (Migne, Pat. lat., vol. xxv, col. 54), gives proofs that Jerusalem is the center of the earth. The Jews also identified Bethel and Mount Moriah, and the Samaritans Mount Gerizim with the center (Roscher, Omphalos, 1913, p. 27).