The sacred mountains . TXXI. Lebanon is not an isolated peak, but achain of mountains running through thesouth of Syria. There are two grand ridgesrising above the rest, called Libanus or Leb-anon, and Antelibanus. The name signifieswhite mountain, and was given to this rangefrom the white appearance its snow-captsummits present, and also perhaps from thelimestone rocks that form it. The highestmountain in Syria, covered with snow bothin summer and winter, Lebanon naturallvbecame a marked object to the Israelites inthat warm climate. Still it has been conse-crated by no great event—no manifest
The sacred mountains . TXXI. Lebanon is not an isolated peak, but achain of mountains running through thesouth of Syria. There are two grand ridgesrising above the rest, called Libanus or Leb-anon, and Antelibanus. The name signifieswhite mountain, and was given to this rangefrom the white appearance its snow-captsummits present, and also perhaps from thelimestone rocks that form it. The highestmountain in Syria, covered with snow bothin summer and winter, Lebanon naturallvbecame a marked object to the Israelites inthat warm climate. Still it has been conse-crated by no great event—no manifestation of God there has made its soil sacred to the 10 110 SACRED MOUNTAINS. pilgrim, and it has not that claim to a placeamong the list of immortal mountains thatothers possess. It is, nevertheless, mention-ed so frequently in the Bible, and spoken ofwith such delight by prophets and kings, and,indeed, used so often by God himself to illus-trate his declarations to his people, that wehave come to regard it as a holy mounta
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