The Holy Land and the Bible; . hem and sujiported theAvooden rafters. Synagogues seem to have nearly always had somereligious emblem over their main entrance—a seven-branched candle-stick, or a Paschal lamb:^ tlie device over this one, still seen on alarge stone, Avas a pot of manna, Avhich is very striking if this Averethe building frequented by Christ. Perhaps it Avas in sight of it thatHe cried, I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in thewilderness, and are dead. ^ The ruins of the ancient town covera space about a half a mile in length and half as broad. On the northside are
The Holy Land and the Bible; . hem and sujiported theAvooden rafters. Synagogues seem to have nearly always had somereligious emblem over their main entrance—a seven-branched candle-stick, or a Paschal lamb:^ tlie device over this one, still seen on alarge stone, Avas a pot of manna, Avhich is very striking if this Averethe building frequented by Christ. Perhaps it Avas in sight of it thatHe cried, I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in thewilderness, and are dead. ^ The ruins of the ancient town covera space about a half a mile in length and half as broad. On the northside are two remarkable tombs; one, of limestone blocks, l)uilt under-ground in an excavation made in the hard basalt; the other, a greatfour-cornered structure, above ground, made to hold a great manybodies, and a|)parently once Avhite-washed: one ofthosc tond)sto Avhichour Lord conq)arcd the Pharisees of His day when ]\c ])roclairaed 1 There is one, however, over whicli ;i liare—an unclean crealiire—is represented. 2 Joliu >^LV.] KHAN MINIEII, KHEKSA, CHORAZIN, 565 them whited sepulchres. ^ There are no traces of a harbor, so thatthe fishing-boats must either have been drawn up on shore when notin use, or kept in the little bend at Tabghah, where the mill now place, a mile and a half from Tell Hum, is believed by Sir CharlesWilson to have been the fountain of Capernaum, a distinction whichCanon Tristram confers upon the Round Fountain away at the southend of Gennesaret. There are five fountains at Tabghah; one of themquite a small river. Its waters appear to have been raised in ancienttimes to a higher level by works which still remain, and they werethus made to water the great plain to the south; a very stong reservoirraising their surface twenty feet, and an aqueduct from this leading thestream to the plain.^ Sir C. Wilson thinks this a strong corrobora-tion of the claims of Tell Hum to be Capernaum, but when so manydoctors differ I feel it would be presumptuo
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