. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . he is alsocalled Johanan—i. e., John. Josephus sayshe murdered his brother Jesus in the Tem-ple, because Jesus was endeavoring to getthe high-priesthood from him, through theinfluence of the Persian general. Joppa, or Japho (to be beautiful, to shine),now Jaffa, is supposed to have got its namefrom its beauty, from the masses of sunshine his ships, se^hMrerusjjgf to o^fe «*Pthe help (^ JeWvah ^ain«tt>W mieh tohelp
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . he is alsocalled Johanan—i. e., John. Josephus sayshe murdered his brother Jesus in the Tem-ple, because Jesus was endeavoring to getthe high-priesthood from him, through theinfluence of the Persian general. Joppa, or Japho (to be beautiful, to shine),now Jaffa, is supposed to have got its namefrom its beauty, from the masses of sunshine his ships, se^hMrerusjjgf to o^fe «*Pthe help (^ JeWvah ^ain«tt>W mieh tohelp of .refioVah ^gain«f^ yi i^Shaving ,*v hWbor, though adangerous (hie, it bec^tfwrn the days of Sol-omon the pqrbi,^ Jerusalem, and has re*maineJjsoi«^s*lsince. To this^tfce Hif*™*floatedldown from Tyre the <fif^eesanon ; Wd hither, five hundred ye^SMeer,Zerubbavel caused the cedar-t^fe^S^m thesame moii»tegi ® ©^©fi^fe^j^ere Jonahtook ship ^fl^-nm tht ifffggen rr of his Ma-ker ; here the Jewish patriots, in the days ofthe Maccabees, waged not alittle of their war;here Peter wrought the miracle on Tabitha;and here, while tarrying with Simon the. Jaffa from the North. which its houses reflect, like the Sohonbergs,the Bellevilles, and Formosas, of more re-cent times. It is one of the oldest cities inthe world, ranking with Hebron, Zoan, andDamascus. Indeed early geographers as-cribe to it an antediluvian paternity, andderive its name from Japhetb. The localhabitation of many mythical stories, it isthe scene of the legend of Andromedas res-cue from the sea-monster, which no doubthas some foundation in the early story ofthe city, though whether grafted on Jonahsmiraculous deliverance, as some have sup-Posed, is questionable. Joppa was in theinheritance of Dan, who there remained in tanner, whose house and skin-vat, made ofstone, on the shore, tradition still points out,the apostle saw the vision that taught himthat Jew and Gentile were one in Christ-Here,
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