. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 151.—Coin of Eph The legend of the coin is Ueiioi Eijeaiiu;/ (PicIt exhibits the leading features of Ephesus, viMount Pion, and the Temple. .\t the foot is VOL. I. 1 of the Ephesians).;. the river Cayster,ecu Mount Cilbius, 2 T 322 [ 54] DESCRIPTION OF EPHESUS. [Chap. XIH. to the north of it, and extended on the west to the port, and on the south along thevalley between Mount Coressus and Prion or Pion, and covered part of Prion, or Pion,itself. No city ever changed its name or its site so frequently as Ephesus. In thetime of the Trojan war it was
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 151.—Coin of Eph The legend of the coin is Ueiioi Eijeaiiu;/ (PicIt exhibits the leading features of Ephesus, viMount Pion, and the Temple. .\t the foot is VOL. I. 1 of the Ephesians).;. the river Cayster,ecu Mount Cilbius, 2 T 322 [ 54] DESCRIPTION OF EPHESUS. [Chap. XIH. to the north of it, and extended on the west to the port, and on the south along thevalley between Mount Coressus and Prion or Pion, and covered part of Prion, or Pion,itself. No city ever changed its name or its site so frequently as Ephesus. In thetime of the Trojan war it was called Alopes, then Ortygia, then Merges, then SmyrnaTrachea, then Samornion, then Ptelea, and lastly Ephesus. The city stood originally. u uFig. 152.—Plan according to Falkener. •ooeeoooooo«eo0eo*ee*o««ee» ; J [ji^ ?^i; o e r— ^—i • :: o : oo L^ =J o• o u« o o •u oeooooooeoO0OOO oooo Fig. 153.—Plan according to J. Fergusson. This is the nearest approacb to the plan so far as the same has been at present ascertained by exploration on the spot. Fig. 154.—Plan according to Leafce to tlie east of Mount Coressus, but this part, in the days of the Apostle, had beenabandoned in favour of Mount Coressiis and the parts adjoining it on the west.^^ It would require a volume to describe the city at length ; but three objects of the source of the Cayster; and the recumhf-nt figure is iheCaytt-rpersonified, pointing in the direction of the stream. On the leftbank of the river is a building which may either represent thecity itself or the temple. In favour of the lormer, it is observablethat the building has windows, which is less appropriate to atemple than to a house. The received opinnn, however, is
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