The Holy Land in the light of recent surveys and explorationsA hand book for Sunday-school teachers and Bible students . the Dome of the Rock, and that by the help of Byzan-tine architects. Under the rule of the Saracens thingsfell to pieces, and the thistles and nettles grew over 262 THE HOLY LAND. them, where they lie to-day, waiting for the explorerto dig them up. The Crusader, in his 100 years ofoccupation, built churches and castles, but he was themost destructive of all, for he not only used the oldstones, but he refaced them and carved them after hisown fashion. The Turk, like the Sarac
The Holy Land in the light of recent surveys and explorationsA hand book for Sunday-school teachers and Bible students . the Dome of the Rock, and that by the help of Byzan-tine architects. Under the rule of the Saracens thingsfell to pieces, and the thistles and nettles grew over 262 THE HOLY LAND. them, where they lie to-day, waiting for the explorerto dig them up. The Crusader, in his 100 years ofoccupation, built churches and castles, but he was themost destructive of all, for he not only used the oldstones, but he refaced them and carved them after hisown fashion. The Turk, like the Saracen, has leftthings to decay. Modern civilization is even moredestructive, because every new industry that is startedbuilds up more of the old stones into new walls. Theinscribed stone of Herods temple, the only inscriptiona tbmp^ ^ft of the temple, containing, word stone. £or word, the warning quoted by Josephus, the only stone of which we can be certainthat stood in its position when our Lord was in thetemple was found by a Frenchman, Mr. Ganneau, in1871. It bears the following inscription in Greek inseven lines:. TEMPLE INSCRIPTION. JERUSALEM. 263 The translation is: No stranger is to enter withinthe balustrade round the temple and enclosure. Who-ever is caught will be responsible to himself for hisdeath, which will ensue. The episode in the Acts ofthe Apostles, 21, 26, throws great light on this preciousinscription, and receives light from it. Paul, afterpurification, presents himself in the temple; the peo-ple immediately rise against him, because certain Jewsof Asia believed that Paul had introduced a Gentile,Trophimus of Ephesus, and had thus polluted thesacred place. They are about to put him to deathwhen the tribune commanding at Fort Antonia inter-venes and rescues him. The people demand of thetribune the execution of the culprit, that is, the appli-cation of the law. This inscription, and probably thisvery stone, was almost certainly seen and read byChrist; and it wo
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