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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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Revelation run the Revelation of John. Norcould they consistently have failed to protest againstits insertion ; for in no ancient manuscript is the word saint found in any of these titles, and every one ofthe revisers must have been well aware that there isnot the faintest reason for supposing that it ever formedpart of the original text ! So far from the title ■ saint being peculiar to any one member of the Church, or 1 John xvii. n. ;5 Matt. i. 18. 2 Acts iv. 27, 30. 4 Rev. iv. 8. JOPPA TO JERUSALEM 77 any one class of its members as distinguished from therest, one might as scripturally speak of either Bunyanor Wesley as Saint1 John, as give this style to thewriter of the fourth Gospel. It was whilst Peter was amongst 1 the saints whodwelt at Lydda that he found a certain man Aeneas,who had been bedridden and hopelessly palsied (thatis, paralysed) for eight years. Peter said to him :Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole ; arise, andmake thy bed ; and he arose immediately. And all
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THE PHILISTINE COUNTRY 78 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS that dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him ; and theyturned to the Lord. 1 It was from this little town ofLydda the disciples at Joppa sent two men to urge Peterto come there on the occasion of the death of Dorcas,which issued in the wonderful miracle of the Apostlesraising her from the dead, leading to many morebelieving on the Lord. Now there is a railway from Joppa to Jerusalem,and a good carriage road, but thirty-five years agothe highway on the plain of Sharon was the usualstone-strewn, almost impassable way ; and that partof it which ran through the mountains of Judah was littlemore than a goat track. It is most probable that onordinary occasions the roads of Palestine in Bible timeswere in no better condition. Mr. James Neil tells us of the country in its ancientunchanged condition in 1870: There is scarcely onegood road throughout the length and breadth of Palestine.Travellers, as they manage to pass their horses withdifficulty alon

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