. "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 .... to Moloch in this valley, together with the per-petual fire kept burning to consume the filth from the citythrown here, that the latter Jews regarded it a fit emblem ofhell, and applied the Greek name of the valley—Gehenna—tothe place of future torments. The receptacle of the dead car-casses of beasts and of refuse matter, both animal and vegeta-ble, here the worm sought its food, whic
. "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 .... to Moloch in this valley, together with the per-petual fire kept burning to consume the filth from the citythrown here, that the latter Jews regarded it a fit emblem ofhell, and applied the Greek name of the valley—Gehenna—tothe place of future torments. The receptacle of the dead car-casses of beasts and of refuse matter, both animal and vegeta-ble, here the worm sought its food, which, together with theperpetual fires of the vale, suggested to the Saviors mind thosesolemn words, Where the worm dieth not, and the fire isnot quenched.* And now, as if by appointment, a deep gloomhangs near this doomed spot, and the physical features of thevalley reflect its horrid history. The gorge is deep and nar-row, the cliffs are broken and barren, the hill on the norththrows its shadow to meet below the deeper shades of the ^ 2 Kings, xxiii., 10. Josephus, W. J., b. vi., c. riii., s. 5. ^ Josephus, W. J., b. v., c. xiii., s. 7. * Mark, ix., 44. ?/?/:lfj^J^,::b; , .Mh ? Ik: mx ll^l - 1 f. FUOil DAX TO BEEKSHEBA. • 101 bill on the south, while the, rocks are red as if scorched byeternal tires. The sides of the Hill of Evil Council, whiclxrises from its southern side, are perforated with tombs, now theabode of shepherds and homeless wanderers. Midway up thishill is Aceldama, the Potters Field, the price of thirtypieces of silver.^ Unmarked by boundaries, the field con-tains a gloomy vault, sixty feet square and thirty deep; overit is a long massive building of stone, with an arched roof, butopen at each end, and on the bottom lay the bones of someIjoor stranger. Strangely inclined to invest all things con-nected with New Testament history with the supernatural,the monks assert that the soil of this field possesses the rarepower of reducing dead bodies to a perfect mo
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