. Christian herald and signs of our times. CaesareaPhilirpi, alongwhich Paul was hurried at night by hisescort of four hundred and seventy Romansoldiers, he riding in their midst upon thebeast provided for him to bring him safe toFelix, the governor. This road, recentlydiscovered, winds directly about the foot ofthis hill, and the forks of the great high-way lead off to Damascus and other largetowns. At the great feast of the Passover,it would have been thronged with passers-by and lent itself fully to the custom of theRomans of making their places of execu-tion as public as possible bv establ
. Christian herald and signs of our times. CaesareaPhilirpi, alongwhich Paul was hurried at night by hisescort of four hundred and seventy Romansoldiers, he riding in their midst upon thebeast provided for him to bring him safe toFelix, the governor. This road, recentlydiscovered, winds directly about the foot ofthis hill, and the forks of the great high-way lead off to Damascus and other largetowns. At the great feast of the Passover,it would have been thronged with passers-by and lent itself fully to the custom of theRomans of making their places of execu-tion as public as possible bv establishingthem near the busiest thoroughfares. I cannot resist the temptation to quote atthis point from the eloquent comment ofDr. Cunningham Geikie upon his ablesumming-up of proofs as to the identity ofthe New Calvary with the old : Here,then, apparentlyon this bare, roundedknoll, the Saviour of the world appears tohave passed away with that great crvWhich has been held to betoken cardiac rup~-ture, for it would seem that he literally died. THE TRADITIONAL GROTTO OF JEREMIAH AMI ITS GUARDIAN.(From a Photograph Secured in Palestine by the Proprietor of The Christian Herald.) crated ground already used as a Jewishburying - ground—it would be strange in-deed had intelligent explorers failed to seehow faithfully all these requisites are metby the hill on which we now sit. Behind us, as we face the city and lookdirectlv into the Temple enclosure, lies w hatwas known four hundred years afterChrist as the Place of Stoning, and asthe scene of Stephens death. It bears thename still in Jewish tradition and there,according to Jewish chroniclers, criminalswere hung up by the hands after death un-til the sun went dowrn. A church in mem-ory of St. Stephen was raised upon thePlace of Stoning by St. Eudocia in thefifth century, the ruins of w hich have latelybeen excavated down to the exquisite mo-saic pavement. In turning to the accountof the death of Stephen, we note that themarginal refere
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