The Holy Land and the Bible; . one with her mate.—Isa. xxxiv. 11, 14. 15. In all your dwelling-places the citiesshall be laid waste, and the high placesshall be desolate ; that your altars maybe laid waste and made desolate, andyour idols may be broken and cease, andyour imaL;es may be cut down, and yourworks m;iv be abolished.—Eze. vi. ( THE SLX RE!il.\|NING C0LUJ4NS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF BAALBEK. (See page 618.) ^I-l BAALBEK AND THE CEDARS OF LEBANON. 6l5 which I was able to see through the influence of some friends. Itstands in a paved court near the great mosque, in a detached building
The Holy Land and the Bible; . one with her mate.—Isa. xxxiv. 11, 14. 15. In all your dwelling-places the citiesshall be laid waste, and the high placesshall be desolate ; that your altars maybe laid waste and made desolate, andyour idols may be broken and cease, andyour imaL;es may be cut down, and yourworks m;iv be abolished.—Eze. vi. ( THE SLX RE!il.\|NING C0LUJ4NS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF BAALBEK. (See page 618.) ^I-l BAALBEK AND THE CEDARS OF LEBANON. 6l5 which I was able to see through the influence of some friends. Itstands in a paved court near the great mosque, in a detached building,neglected and in very bad repair. Inside a moderately-sized chamberstood a raised tomb, very simple, built of inlaid slabs of marble; thewhole about five feet high, with raised stones at each end ; a iiugegreen turban crowning that-at the head. The old turban, they said,was underneath, but fresh swathings being added as each earlier onedecays, the whole has now come to a vast circumference. x\t the sideof Saladins modest resting-place was that of his most famous general,but this tomb was still in the humble original wood, now nearly 900years On this also, at the head, rested a huge green was all that remained of the glory of the favorite lieutenant ofthe great Sultan of Egypt and of Syria, and of that Sultan him-se
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