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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ing morethan in thy utter rejection of Gods Holy Child Jesusis seen thy need of a Saviour ! There are manysteep cliffs along the upper part of that side of thevalley on which Nazareth stands—one, 1,000 feet highat the south end, called the Leap of our Lord.. Withwhat a voice they speak to us ! Though Nazareth was itself such a retired spot,it was in the very centre of Roman worldliness andpaganism ; and Sepphoris, three and a half miles to thenorth of it, was a place of great importance. Acre, thencalled Ptolemais, was a very large Roman city on thewest ; and Tiberias, another great centre of Herodianworldliness, lay on the lake shore to the east. It wastruly in the midst of Galilee of the heathen nations —that is the genitive of character for heathen Galilee —and doubtless the corrupting influences of these foreignidolaters had reached this village and many another. Behind Nazareth rises a fine hill, Neby Sain,i,600 feet high, from which a magnificent panorama 1 Luke iv. 14-30.
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GALILEE 247 appears. Looking westward, one can see the wholerange of Carmel, and, like a line of silver light, theGreat Sea. On the south most of the plain ofEsdraelon is in view, with purple mountains closing itin on all sides. Towards the east, over the hills, thechasm where lies the lake of Galilee can be seen, andthe mountains of the Hauran beyond. Turning to thenorth we look down into a wide valley just beneath,where are the ruins of Seffurieh, three and a half milesaway, the Sepphoris of Josephus, who tells us it wasin his day (about forty years after Christ) the greatestcity of all Galilee.1 Over a sea of hills still fartherthere stands out the town of Safed, one of the four holycities of the Jews in Palestine, perched like an eagles neston the brow of a hill some 2,750 feet high, twenty-fivemiles away, and behind it, some thirty miles farther,the clear-cut, dazzlingly white peak of Hermon. Howoften, from childhood upward, must the Saviour haveclimbed this hill, and gazed with

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