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... Hermon- Climate of the Ghûtah - Views of it and from it ....... page I CHAPTER II . — THE CITY . Antiquity of Damascus - Supposed founder and time of foun- dation - Claim of Damascus to be the " perennial city " — Original appearance ...
... Hermon- Climate of the Ghûtah - Views of it and from it ....... page I CHAPTER II . — THE CITY . Antiquity of Damascus - Supposed founder and time of foun- dation - Claim of Damascus to be the " perennial city " — Original appearance ...
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... Hermon - Climate of the Ghûtah - Views of it and from it . THE broad tract of desert which extends in a north- west direction from the mouth of the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf almost to the shores of the Mediter- ranean , is skirted ...
... Hermon - Climate of the Ghûtah - Views of it and from it . THE broad tract of desert which extends in a north- west direction from the mouth of the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf almost to the shores of the Mediter- ranean , is skirted ...
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... Hermon . Where names failed , the ranges still in reality continued , Lebanon being prolonged into the hill country of Galilee , Samaria , and Judæa , while Hermon had a similar extension through Gaulanitis and Bashan to the mountains ...
... Hermon . Where names failed , the ranges still in reality continued , Lebanon being prolonged into the hill country of Galilee , Samaria , and Judæa , while Hermon had a similar extension through Gaulanitis and Bashan to the mountains ...
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... Hermon boasts an altitude of 9,400 feet above the Mediterranean.3 The width of Antilibanus is considerable . Hermon itself is from fourteen to sixteen miles across ; and , north of Hermon , the range greatly expands ; several ridges of ...
... Hermon boasts an altitude of 9,400 feet above the Mediterranean.3 The width of Antilibanus is considerable . Hermon itself is from fourteen to sixteen miles across ; and , north of Hermon , the range greatly expands ; several ridges of ...
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... Hermon , has a course that is almost due south down the valley which separates Palestine proper from Peræa , and which may be con- sidered roughly as a prolongation of the Cole - Syrian " hollow , " for two degrees southward . It ...
... Hermon , has a course that is almost due south down the valley which separates Palestine proper from Peræa , and which may be con- sidered roughly as a prolongation of the Cole - Syrian " hollow , " for two degrees southward . It ...
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Acts Ananias ancient Antilibanus Antioch Apostle Arab Arabia arch architectural Aretas authority Awaaj Barada Bashan beauty Bozrah buildings called Canneh character Chilmad Christian Cloth Boards colonnaded Conybeare and Howson course court Damascene Desert distance east eastern Epistles of St ethnarch feet fertile Five foliage formed gates Gaulanitis Gentiles Ghûtah Greco-Syrian Greeks Greeks and Syrians Hauran heathen height Hermon Herod Herod Antipas Hieromax History house of Judas Ibid Jebel Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judæa Kings Land of Israel miles mountain municipium natural Paul Paul's visit perhaps pillars plain population Porter portion prayer preach Prefect of Syria present probably quarter region religion religious Rome route sacred scarcely scene Scripture Scythopolis Seleucid side Sinai and Palestine sojourn Stanley Strabo stream streets synagogues Temple Tiberius tion town tract trade traveller Tristram Tyre Vitringa walls wholly worship xxii yards
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Page 123 - Which things are an allegory : for these are the two covenants ; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. • For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 123 - when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 119 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision : but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
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Page 111 - Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus; for behold he prayeth, and hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias, coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
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