Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . s by which a locality is assigned to everyincident recorded in the bible history of Jerusalem. The monks show youthe very spot where the cock crew when Peter denied his master, the fiveporches where the sick were brought to be healed, the house of Simon thePharisee, where Mary Magdalen confessed her sins, nay, the mansion of Divesand the house of Lazarus in the parable! To judge from present appearance, thebeggar was quite as well lodged as his opulent neighbour. Then t
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . s by which a locality is assigned to everyincident recorded in the bible history of Jerusalem. The monks show youthe very spot where the cock crew when Peter denied his master, the fiveporches where the sick were brought to be healed, the house of Simon thePharisee, where Mary Magdalen confessed her sins, nay, the mansion of Divesand the house of Lazarus in the parable! To judge from present appearance, thebeggar was quite as well lodged as his opulent neighbour. Then there isthe Via Dolorosa, the way by which the Saviour passed from the judgment hall of Pilate to Cal-| __ vary, wherein are to be seen the spot where thepeople laid hold of Simonthe Cyrene, and com-pelled him to bear thecross, and the three dif-ferent stones on whichChrist, fainting, sat downto rest, with the dentmade by the cross in thewall of a house againstwhich he fell. But allthe other legendary lo-calities of Jerusalem areeclipsed by the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre, of which we shall speak presently in detail. The. Church of the Holy Sepulchre. * Monro. f Captain Light. 362 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. PLAN OF JERUSALEM.
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