. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. thecities of the Samaritans, they would not ?nterlain him,becaufe they perceived he was going to Jerufalem.(Luke ix. 53. 53.) Becaufe his face was as though hewould go to .lerufalem. And when the Jews wereprovoked at the reproaches of Jefus Chrift, they toldhim he was a Samaritan (John viii. 48.), thinking theycould fay nothing more fevere againft him. Jofephusrelates, that fome Samaritans having killed feveral Jewsas they were going to the feaft at Jerufalem, this ec-cafioned a kind of a war between t
. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. thecities of the Samaritans, they would not ?nterlain him,becaufe they perceived he was going to Jerufalem.(Luke ix. 53. 53.) Becaufe his face was as though hewould go to .lerufalem. And when the Jews wereprovoked at the reproaches of Jefus Chrift, they toldhim he was a Samaritan (John viii. 48.), thinking theycould fay nothing more fevere againft him. Jofephusrelates, that fome Samaritans having killed feveral Jewsas they were going to the feaft at Jerufalem, this ec-cafioned a kind of a war between them. The Sama-ritans continued their fealty to the Romans, when theJews revolted from them ; yet they did not efcapefrom being involved in fome of the calami tits of theirneighbours. There are ftill at this day fome Samaritans at Shechem,otlierwife called Naploufe. They have priefts there, \ who fay they are of the family of Aaron. They have a < high-pricft, who refides at Shechem, or at Gerizim, whooffers facrificcs there, and who declares the feaft of thepaffover, Plat^ SAM Sambucm, palTover, and all the other fcafts, to all the difperfed. S^-*^ _ Samaritans. Some of them are to be found at Gaza, feme at Damafcus, and forae at Grand Cairo. SAMBUCUS, ELDER, a genus of plants belongingto the peiitandria clafs ; and in the natural methodranking under the 43d order, Dumofee. See BotanyIndex. All the forts of elder are of the deciduous tribe, veryhardy, and grow freely anywhere; are generally free(hooters, but particularly the common elder and varie-ties, which make remarkably ftrong, jointed llioots, offeveral feet in length, in one feafon ; and they Howermollly in fummer, except the racemofe elder, whichgenerally begins tlowering in April ; and the branchesbeing large, fpreading, and very abundant, are exceed-ingly conipicuous ; but they emit a difagreeable flowers are fucceeded in moll of the forts by largebunches of ripe berries in autumn, which, alt
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