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Title: Out-of-Doors in the Holyland
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Regis Canevin
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wetry to reconstruct the past. It was in the days of Antoninus Pius and MarcusAurelius, in the latter part of the second century afterChrist, that these temples and palaces and theatreswere rising. Those were the palmy days of Grseco-Roman civiKsation in Syria; then the shops along theColonnade were filled with rich goods, the ForumHstened to the voice of world-famous orators andteachers, and proud lords and ladies assembled in theNaumachia to watch the sham battlesof theminiaturegalleys. A Uttle later the new rehgion of Christianityfound a foothold here, (see, these are the ruined out-lines of a Christian church below us to the south,and the foundation of a great Basilica), and by thefifth century the pagan worship was dying out, andthe Bishop of Gerasa had a seat in the Council ofChalcedon. It was no longer with the comparativemerits of Stoicism and Epicureanism and Neo-Pla-tonism, or with the rival literary fame of their ownAriston and Kerykos as against Meleager and Me-184 H^ffi.
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.12. r. C A JOURNEY TO J E R A S H nippus and Thcodorus of Gadara, that the Gerasenesconcerned themselves. They were busy now withthe controversies about Homoiousia and Homoousia,with the rivalry of the Eutychians and the Nestori-ans, with the conflicting, not to say combative,claims of such saints as Dioscurus of Alexandria andTheodoret of Cyrus. But trade continued brisk, andthe city was as rich and as proud as ever. In theseventh century an Arabian chronicler named itamong the great towns of Palestine, and a poetpraised its fertile territory and its copious spring. Then what happened ? Earthquake, pestilence,conflagration, pillage, devastation—who knows ?A Mohammedan writer of the thirteenth centurymerely mentions it as a great city of ruins; andso it lay, deserted and forgotten, until a Germantraveller visited it in 1806; and so it lies to-day, withall its dwellings and its walls shattered and dissolvedbeside its flowing stream in the centre of its greenvalley, and only the reli

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