. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... opography. Traditionally considered, the argument in its favor runs thus:Such was the popularity of Jesus, and such the publicity ofhis death, burial, and resurrection, as to stamp the place of theiroccurrence with imperishable memory; that the descent of theHoly Ghost, the conversion of three thousand, the early found-ing of his Church in the city of his rejection, and the mainte-nanc
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... opography. Traditionally considered, the argument in its favor runs thus:Such was the popularity of Jesus, and such the publicity ofhis death, burial, and resurrection, as to stamp the place of theiroccurrence with imperishable memory; that the descent of theHoly Ghost, the conversion of three thousand, the early found-ing of his Church in the city of his rejection, and the mainte-nance of its unity for thirty-seven years, combined to cherishin the public mind the recollection of the place ; that though,just previous to the siege of the Holy City by Titus, his fol-lowers fled to Pella, beyond the Jordan, it Avas but a tempo-rary departure, and that, after the storm of war had spent itsfury, they returned to the city of their choice ; that the deso-lation of seventy years which followed the conquest of the Ro-mans was partial, and that, while the more wealthy of the pop-ulation were sold into captivity, many of the common peopleretained their humbler homes; that, from the year 130 FROH DAN TO BEERSUEBA. 149 to the present time, Jerusalem lias been an inhabited city, andthat the Emperor Hadrian rebuilt the city, and, to dishonoralike the Jew and Christian, he reared a fane in honor of Jupi-ter on the site of Solomons Temple, and covered the tomb ofJesus with a temple to Venus ; and that this temple to Venusremained standing for two hundred years after its erection,and was seen by Eusebius in the year 326 Such is the evidence for the identity of the Holy Sepulchreas the tomb of Jesus, from his resurrection down to the com-mencement of authentic history. It is unwritten tradition,and, at best, presumptive proof. Extending through a periodof three hundred years of wars, revolutions, and desolations, itis the most unreliable period of all the centuries
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