The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . gdom is to cease from that this place was obviously the metropolis ofa Syrian empire. It gave name (Syria Damas-cena, Plin. Hist. Nat. v. 13) to a district of Syria,which, in 1 Chron. xix :6, is distinguished asSyria-Maachah, in the common English plain is about 400 stadia from the Mediter-ranean, and from six to eight days journey fromJerusalem. (2) Topography. D
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . gdom is to cease from that this place was obviously the metropolis ofa Syrian empire. It gave name (Syria Damas-cena, Plin. Hist. Nat. v. 13) to a district of Syria,which, in 1 Chron. xix :6, is distinguished asSyria-Maachah, in the common English plain is about 400 stadia from the Mediter-ranean, and from six to eight days journey fromJerusalem. (2) Topography. Damascus—by some held tobe the most ancient city in the world—is called bythe Orientals a pearl surrounded by can be more beautiful than its position,whether approached from the side of Mount Leb-anon, from the Desert to the east, or by the highroad from the north from Aleppo and many miles the city is girdled by fertile fields,or gardens, as they are called, which beingwatered by rivers and sparkling streams, give tothe vegetation, consisting principally of olive-trees, a remarkable freshness and beauty. Of allthe cities of the East, Damascus is probably themqst Damascus. the construction in the Greek will not sanction thisconclusion. The name Damaris does not occurelsewhere, whence some suppose it a corruption ofDamalis, which was not an uncommon name; butthe r and / are in Greek so constantly interchangedas to render this emendation superfluous. DAMASCENE (dama-sen), a native or inhabi-tant of Damascus (2 Cor. xi:32). DAMASCUS (da-maskus), (Heb. P?$3 dam-mehsek; (Gr. Aa/*ao-K<5s, dam-as-kds), called by thenatives Es-Sham. (1) The Metropolis and Capital of Syria, also capital of an important pashalic of the samename, lies in a plain at the eastern foot of Anti-Libanus. It was sometimes spoken of by the an-cients as an Arabian city, but in reality it belongsto Syria. In 2 Sam. viii :5, 6, the Syrians of Da-mascus are spoken of, and
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