. A dictionary of the Bible .. . rly in the samewords, but substitutes 200 for 8, which has ledto the belief that he was bui-ied at Jehel Fur-reidis, where he had erected a palace 60 stadiasouth of Jerusalem, and 170 from Jericho. Eventhen the procession must have passed through Jeru-salem, and this hardly would liave been the casewithout its being mentioned ; but the great difficultyis that there is no hint anywhere else of Herodsintention to be buried there, and the most extremeimprobability that he should wish to be interred sofar from the city where all his predecessors werelaid. Though it
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . rly in the samewords, but substitutes 200 for 8, which has ledto the belief that he was bui-ied at Jehel Fur-reidis, where he had erected a palace 60 stadiasouth of Jerusalem, and 170 from Jericho. Eventhen the procession must have passed through Jeru-salem, and this hardly would liave been the casewithout its being mentioned ; but the great difficultyis that there is no hint anywhere else of Herodsintention to be buried there, and the most extremeimprobability that he should wish to be interred sofar from the city where all his predecessors werelaid. Though it would be unpardonable to alterthe text in order to meet any particular view, stillwhen an author makes two statements in directcontradiction the one to the other, it is allowable tochoose tlie most conformable with probability; andthis, fidiled to his assertion that Herods Tombs werein this neighbourhood, seems to settle the question. The aichitecture (Woodcut Ko. 8) exhibits ill-understood PLoman Doric arrangements as. No. a—Fagade of Ueiorts Tombs, from a Photograph. are found in all these tombs, mixed with bunches ofgrapes, which first appear on Maccabean coins, and TOMB foliage which is local and peculiar, and, so far asanything is known elsewhere, might be of any connexion, however, with that of the Tombs ofJehoshaphat and the Judges fixes it to the sameepoch. The entrance doorway of this tomb is below thelevel of the ground, and , as far as any-thing can be said to be so which is so archi-tecturally adorned ; and it is remarkable as theonly instance of this quasi-concealment at Jeru-salem. It is closed by a very curious and elabo-rate contrivance of a rolling stone, often described,but very clumsily answering its purpose. Thisalso is characteristic of its age, as we know fromPausanias that the structural marble monument ofQueen Helena of Adiabene was remarkable for asimilar piece of misplaced ingenuity. Within, thetomb consists of a vestibule
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