The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ natural that in his anticipations of the happy days after theReturn, he should picture in his mind that again in this place, whichis desolate, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down, orpass again under the hands of him that telleth them.^ 1 Sinai and ,iU. 2 1 19. 3 1 Sam. xxl. 1; ; Luke 4 1 40. 5 Gen. xxxi. 40. 6 Jer. xxxiii. 12, Auata, Ancient Anathoth, tlip Birthplace of Jeremiah. (See page 159.) XXXIII.] NO
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ natural that in his anticipations of the happy days after theReturn, he should picture in his mind that again in this place, whichis desolate, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down, orpass again under the hands of him that telleth them.^ 1 Sinai and ,iU. 2 1 19. 3 1 Sam. xxl. 1; ; Luke 4 1 40. 5 Gen. xxxi. 40. 6 Jer. xxxiii. 12, Auata, Ancient Anathoth, tlip Birthplace of Jeremiah. (See page 159.) XXXIII.] NORTHWARDS. 447 Anatlioth, the birthplace of Jeremiah, is a small village lying on thetop of a low hill, which is fretted over, in part, with loose stone wallsprotecting little or nothing, and of course in a very poor condition, likeeverything in Palestine, so far as I have seen, except the buildings ofBethlehem and its neighborhood, which are Christian. A few olive-trees grow in scattered clumps on the plain below the village, butotherwise there are no trees in the landscape. It was a town ofBenjamin, and was resettled after the Captivity, so that the solitudewhich grieved the prophet passed away after his death. Pillar-shafts,built into some of the walls, speak of mediaeval structures—probablychurches and other ecclesiastical buildings; indeed, the tesselatedpavement of a church was recently discovered on the western side ofthe hamlet. The view from any of the housetops is wonderfully inter-esting in hi
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