. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. aste,and would begin his journey at a time of yearwhen the flocks and herds were most capable offatigue, allow more than twelve miles a day,wliich, for the whole ten days, would make 120miles from the Euphrates. But Laban musthave started in pursuit from Haran itself, whichwas fifty miles to the east of the Euphrates;these fifty miles, added to the 120 miles ofJacob, would make a jomney for Laban of 170miles. As this distance was accomplished byhim in seven days, Laban must liave travelledat the rate of about twenty-five miles a day,which answers to the usu


. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. aste,and would begin his journey at a time of yearwhen the flocks and herds were most capable offatigue, allow more than twelve miles a day,wliich, for the whole ten days, would make 120miles from the Euphrates. But Laban musthave started in pursuit from Haran itself, whichwas fifty miles to the east of the Euphrates;these fifty miles, added to the 120 miles ofJacob, would make a jomney for Laban of 170miles. As this distance was accomplished byhim in seven days, Laban must liave travelledat the rate of about twenty-five miles a day,which answers to the usual average of a daysjourney in the East. We should suimise, there-fore, that Mount Gilead was about 170 milesfrom Haran, and 120 from the Euphrates, inthe direction of a line drawn from Haran toSuccoth, where we afterwards find Jacob. But ■what was the very spot in particular it is im-possible to say. - See Fasti Sacri, p. 8, No. 68. ^ We may take this opportunity of defining JP /■ if COMM AGJ: N K [318 7^ /ac€ Vol 1 .page MAP OF [20 \. _ > P I E T R ^: A ^ -V 3I-1. -■■■ 3i6 _ais_ \i:^.TT,UAo f-tcZ^iSqu Loniiun. BtJI * Sons Chap. V.] HISTORY Ob DAMASCUS. [ 37] his character: he assassinated his own son Philippion, that he might himself marryhis ^ The rich burgesses of Damascus were the constant victimsof his avarice, and they made several vain attempts to free themselves from his yoke. the limits of some of the countries, the boun-daries of which are not generally known and notalways easy to be ascertained :— Abilene was the country about Abila. Thistown lay eighteen miles north-west of Damascus,and was on the Eiver Barrada. Pococke foundthe ruins, and a stone bearing the inscription,Lysanias, Tctrarch of Abiliiic. The nativesconnected the spot with the death of Abel, thename of Abila having become unintelligible,and at last corrupted. Pococks Travels in theEast, vol. ii. p. 116. See a sketch of the siteof Abila in the next page, with


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