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... importance . I was confirmed in this feeling by what was almost the last piece of literature to pass through my hands , the article of Dr. Zahn's mentioned in a note on p . 93. This article un- fortunately came to my notice later than ...
... importance . I was confirmed in this feeling by what was almost the last piece of literature to pass through my hands , the article of Dr. Zahn's mentioned in a note on p . 93. This article un- fortunately came to my notice later than ...
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... before going to Palestine how numerous and important these traces are . The Crusaders planted down their castles on every point of vantage , much as we may see them on the marches of Wales or Scotland . IN THE TIME OF CHRIST II.
... before going to Palestine how numerous and important these traces are . The Crusaders planted down their castles on every point of vantage , much as we may see them on the marches of Wales or Scotland . IN THE TIME OF CHRIST II.
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... importance . The village of Nain is a conspicuous object on the northern slope of Nebi Dahi ( Little Hermon ) , the great eastern buttress of the plain of Esdraelon , and a striking feature in the landscape . A white Franciscan church ...
... importance . The village of Nain is a conspicuous object on the northern slope of Nebi Dahi ( Little Hermon ) , the great eastern buttress of the plain of Esdraelon , and a striking feature in the landscape . A white Franciscan church ...
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... importance has ' Gergesenes . ' This probably betrays the influence of Origen . We cannot doubt that the oldest reading is ' Gerasenes , ' on which ' Gadarenes ' is a later gloss . ' Gerasenes ' and ' Gergesenes ' alike are attempts to ...
... importance has ' Gergesenes . ' This probably betrays the influence of Origen . We cannot doubt that the oldest reading is ' Gerasenes , ' on which ' Gadarenes ' is a later gloss . ' Gerasenes ' and ' Gergesenes ' alike are attempts to ...
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... important note by the veteran geographer Dr. K. Furrer , of Zürich : - ' That Kersa ( the first discoverer of the place , Thomson , writes Gersa , Schumacher Kursi ) may , so far as the sounds are concerned , be identified with Gerasa ...
... important note by the veteran geographer Dr. K. Furrer , of Zürich : - ' That Kersa ( the first discoverer of the place , Thomson , writes Gersa , Schumacher Kursi ) may , so far as the sounds are concerned , be identified with Gerasa ...
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Page 98 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth — so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 98 - Whatever in those Climes he found Irregular in sight or sound Did to his mind impart A kindred impulse, seemed allied To his own powers, and justified The workings of his heart.
Page 22 - And they had a few small fishes : and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.
Page 28 - The name, however, pronounced by Bedawin Arabs is so similar to Gergesa, that, to all my inquiries for this place, they invariably said it was at Chersa, and they insisted that they were identical, and I agree with them in this opinion.
Page 56 - Interius uero ciuitati sunt piscinae gemellares, quinque porticos habentes, quae appellantur Betsaida. Ibi aegri multorum annorum sanabantur. Aquam autem habent hae piscinae in modum coccini turbatam...
Page 44 - ... for besides the good temperature of the air, it is also watered from a most fertile fountain. The people of the country call it Capharnaum. Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria.
Page 44 - Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria. The length of this country extends itself along the banks of this lake that bears the same name for thirty furlongs, and is in breadth twenty, And this is the nature of that place.
Page 35 - Beisdn (Scythopolis), there is a remarkable group of seven springs, all lying within a radius of a quarter of a mile, which answers to the description "many waters.
Page 28 - ... swine, rushing madly down it, could not stop, but would be hurried on into the water and drowned. The place is one which our Lord would be likely to visit, having Capernaum in full view to the north, and Galilee
Page 99 - ... on the one hand to the Mediterranean and on the other to the yet deeper trench of the Jordan ; it is this succession of ' Pisgah views ' that puts its stamp upon the landscape of Palestine, and this also — Dr.