The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . e-gions east of the Jordan. It is a ride of four hours fromKhan Minyeh to the bridge, most of the distance over roughblack basalt, interspersed in a few places with a white mar-ble, intensely hard, and sufficiently compact to take a beau-tiful polish. Jub Yusuf—Well of Joseph—where Moslem 6 THE LAND AND THE BOOK, tradition locates the pit in which, that unfortunate lad wascast by his envious brethren, is midway between the lakeand the bridge. The khan there is like th
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . e-gions east of the Jordan. It is a ride of four hours fromKhan Minyeh to the bridge, most of the distance over roughblack basalt, interspersed in a few places with a white mar-ble, intensely hard, and sufficiently compact to take a beau-tiful polish. Jub Yusuf—Well of Joseph—where Moslem 6 THE LAND AND THE BOOK, tradition locates the pit in which, that unfortunate lad wascast by his envious brethren, is midway between the lakeand the bridge. The khan there is like this of Minyeh, butnot so dilapidated, though equally deserted. Indeed, thereis not an inhabited house in the entire region. The land,however, is fertile, and in some coming day of peace andprosperity it will be a picturesque, fruitful, and most healthyprovince. Before we pass entirely away from this vicinity, I wish toinquire whether there is any thing in the construction ofmodern Arab houses to explain the manner in which theman sick of the palsy was placed at the feet of Jesus. Ihave never been able to understand AN ABAB UOnSE. The record in Mark ii. 1-12 and Luke v. 18-26 statesthat there was such a dense crowd around our Lord that thefour men could not force their way through it, and there-fore they went to the roof of the house, broke up part of it,and let down the sick man from above. The following con-siderations may make this act intelligible. We must ban- ARAB HOUSE—MAN SICK OF PALSY. 7 isb from our niiuds every form of European or Americanhouses. Those of Capernaum, as is evident from the ruins,were, like tliosc of modern villages in this same region, low,very low, with thit roofs, reached by a stairway from the yardor court. Jesus probably stood in the open kwan, and thecrowd were around and in front of him. Those who car-ried the paralytic not being able to come at him for thepress, ascended to the roof, removed so much of it as wasinecessary, and let down
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