. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . prophet resided. He raised herson from death.^ The Saviour delivered this ones daugh-ter from the power of the devil. This small village on the hill to our left, called Sarafend,is the modern representative of Sarepta, It seems to havebeen built there after the twelfth century, for at the time ofthe Crusades the city stood on the shore. Of course thewidows cave, and all other ancient sites now shown underthe hill of Sarafend, are apocryphal. Those who merely ride al
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . prophet resided. He raised herson from death.^ The Saviour delivered this ones daugh-ter from the power of the devil. This small village on the hill to our left, called Sarafend,is the modern representative of Sarepta, It seems to havebeen built there after the twelfth century, for at the time ofthe Crusades the city stood on the shore. Of course thewidows cave, and all other ancient sites now shown underthe hill of Sarafend, are apocryphal. Those who merely ride along the common road form toolow an estimate of the size of the ancient city. There aretwo distinct groups of ruins. One on the headland, imme-diately west of this, Ain el Kunterah. This may have beenthe harbor of Sarepta; and here, I suppose, was the for-tress which Phocas mentions in the twelfth century, and alsothe chapel erected over the reputed house of the of those old foundations which we have just exam-ined may mark the exact spot. Our translation makes Matt. XV. 21. 2 Mark vii. 2G. = 1 Kings xvii. ELIJAH S LOFT—SAREPTA. 235 Elijah live in a loft, but not very accurately. In Hebrewit is alliycli, and this is the common Arabic word for theupper rooms of houses. This alliyeh is the most desirablepart of the establishment, is best fitted up, and is still givento guests who are to be treated with honor. The womenand servants Hve below, and their apartment is called ardi-yeh, or ground floor, in common parlance simply beit orhouse. The poorer sort have no alliyeh. We may inferseveral things from this word: that the mode of building inlillijahs time, and the custom of giving the alliyeh to theguest were the same as now; also, that this widow womanwas not originally among the very poorest classes, but that
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