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Title: Greek Testament lessons for colleges, schools, and private students, consisting chiefly of the Sermon on the Mount, and the parables of our Lord : with notes and essays ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, John Hunter, 1839?-
Subjects: Bible Sermon on the mount
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ills, with nearer and more remote hills as j^iO-tecting barriers, with Mount Olivet for its Janiculum,and the hills of Mizj^eh, Gibeon, and Eamah for its dis-tant Alban and Apennine mountains. But whereasEome was in a well-watered j^lain, leading direct to thesea, Jerusalem was on a bare table-land in the heart ofthe country, on the watershed between the Mediterraneanand the Jordan, 32 miles distant from the sea, and 18from the river. Its ravines.—The approach to Jerusalem from thenorth is a continual ascent from the plain of Esdraelon:the city itself stands on the southern termination of atable-land, which is cut off from the country round it onits west, south, and east sides by two deep and precipi-tous ravines, encompassing it like a great natural fosse. Jehoshaphat and Hinnom.—These ravines leave thelevel of the table-land, the one on the west and theother on the north-east of the city, and after a fall of asmuch as 672 feet each, form a junction below its south- Fullers field
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JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE. 15 east corner. The eastern runs straight from north tosouth: it is commonly called the valley of Jehoshaphat,or the valley of Kedron—i.e., the black torrent, so calledeither from the obscure depth of the ravine, or theblackness of the torrents waters. The western valley—the valley of Hinnom—runssouth for a time, and then takes a sudden bend to theeast until it meets the valley of Jehoshaphat. The Tyropoeon.—These deep ravines give the citythe ap23earance of a promontory joined to the maintable-land only on the north-west. And this promon-tory is itself divided by a longitudinal ravine runningup it from south to north, rising gradually from thesouth like the external ravines, till at last it arrives atthe level of the ujDper plateau. This valley was calledthe Tyroposon, or valley of the cheesemongers (TcovTvpoiroiwv). It is both shallower and broader thanthe other ravines, its depth averaging only from 100to 150 feet below the height of the ridges. In

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