The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^moreover, feel confident that the Jerusalem of Christs day perished, forthe most i)art, in the siege of Titus, so that even the lines of the ancientstreets, traced over the deep beds of rubbish left by the Eomans,must be very different, in many cases, from those of the earlier 3Pool of Bethesda. (See page 311.) XXII.] JERUSALEM. 311 This, however, has in no degree fettered monkish invention, for fourteen stations for prayer in the Via Dolorosa, at which differentincidents in the story of tlie Gospels are said to have taken street rises
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^moreover, feel confident that the Jerusalem of Christs day perished, forthe most i)art, in the siege of Titus, so that even the lines of the ancientstreets, traced over the deep beds of rubbish left by the Eomans,must be very different, in many cases, from those of the earlier 3Pool of Bethesda. (See page 311.) XXII.] JERUSALEM. 311 This, however, has in no degree fettered monkish invention, for fourteen stations for prayer in the Via Dolorosa, at which differentincidents in the story of tlie Gospels are said to have taken street rises gently to an arch apparently of the time of Hadrian, andoriginally an arch of triumph, now said to mark the spot where Pilate,pointing to the bruised and stricken Saviour said, Behold the Man!^There were once, it would seem, two side arches, with a larger one intlie middle, but only the central one, and that on one side, are nowstanding; the other, and even part of the centre span, being built intothe Cliurch of the sisters of Zion. Before reaching this you pass theplace at which Simon of Gyrene is said to have taken up the cross, andthat where Christ fell under its weight. The house where Lazarus ofBethany dwelt after being raised from the dead and the mansion ofDives, are also shown. Pilates Judgment-hal
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