. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . snren.—(From n Sketch by V self) is mentioned only in Mat. xvi. 13 ; Mk. yiu. Philippi was the N. point of our Lord s jour-neying ; and the passage in His life, which was con-nected with the place, was otherwise very marked.(Transfiguration.) The place itself too is remark- able in its physical and picturesque characteristics,and also in its historical associations. It was at the|.; um| „„,st important of Hie two recognized sourcesof the Jordan, the other being at the TellelrKdm(Das 2.) The spring rises, and the city was built. The Source
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . snren.—(From n Sketch by V self) is mentioned only in Mat. xvi. 13 ; Mk. yiu. Philippi was the N. point of our Lord s jour-neying ; and the passage in His life, which was con-nected with the place, was otherwise very marked.(Transfiguration.) The place itself too is remark- able in its physical and picturesque characteristics,and also in its historical associations. It was at the|.; um| „„,st important of Hie two recognized sourcesof the Jordan, the other being at the TellelrKdm(Das 2.) The spring rises, and the city was built. The Source of the Jordan at JUmUi (CeBarea Philippi).-From Van de Velde, U Pay. «(Fta.) on a limestone terrace in a valley at the base ofMount Hermon. Cesarea Philippi has no 0. T. his-tory, though it has been not unreasonably identifiedwith Baal-Gad. (Baal, geography, 5; see alsoBeth-rehob.) Its annals run back direct fromHerods time into heathenism. It was the Panium of Josephus (xv. 10, § S), and the Paneas of theGreeks and Romans ; and the inscriptions are noyet obliterated which show that the god Pan nauonce a sanctuary at this spot. Panium became partof the territory of Philip, tetrarch of Trachomns,who enlarged and embellished the town, and called CES CHA 159 it Cesarea Philippi. Agrippa II. called the placeMeronias in honor of Nero. Titus exhibited gladia-torial shows here after the end of the Jewish of Cesarea Paneas continued through thereigns of many emperors. The bishop of Paneasappears in ecclesiastical history. The modern vil-lage is called B&nias, th
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