The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ment, suchas the conversion of Cornelius, the first fruits of first acts of that war was the massacre of all theJewish inhabitants by the Gentiles, to the numberof 20,000 (Joseph, u. s. ii:i8, i). Caesarea is almost thirty-five miles north ofJoppa or Jaffa, and fifty-five miles from Jerusa-lem. It still retains the ancient name in the formof Kaiseraih, but has long been desolate. Themost
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ment, suchas the conversion of Cornelius, the first fruits of first acts of that war was the massacre of all theJewish inhabitants by the Gentiles, to the numberof 20,000 (Joseph, u. s. ii:i8, i). Caesarea is almost thirty-five miles north ofJoppa or Jaffa, and fifty-five miles from Jerusa-lem. It still retains the ancient name in the formof Kaiseraih, but has long been desolate. Themost conspicuous ruin is that of an old castle,at the extremity of the ancient mole. A greatextent of ground is covered by the remains ofthe city. A low wall of grey-stone encompassesthese ruins, and without this is a moat now the accumulation of rubbish and thegrowth of long grass it is difficult to define theform and nature of the various ruins thus en-closed. Nevertheless, the remains of two aque-ducts, running north and south, are still one next the sea is carried on high arches;the lower one, to the eastward, carries its watersalong a low wall, in an arched channel, five or six. Snobs Caesarea. the Gentiles (Acts x) ; the residence of Philipthe Evangelist (Acts xxi :8) ; the journey thitherof St. Paul; his pleading there before Felix; hisimprisonment for two years, and his final plead-ing before FestUS and King Agrippa (Acts xxiv).It was here also, in the amphitheater built by hisfather, that Herod Agrippa was smitten of Godand died (Acts xii:2I-23). It seems there was a standing dispute betweenthe Jewish and Gentile inhabitants of Caesareaas to which of them the city really belonged. Theformer claimed it as having been built by a Jew,meaning King Herod; the latter admitted this, butcontended that he built it for them and not forJews, seeing that he had filled it with statuesand temples of their gods, which the latter abomi-nated (Joseph. De Bell. lud.
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