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Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, in Phoenicia, and at Nineveh. Even the most genuine sepulchres are received as such bythe highest Mussulman authorities on grounds the most pue-rile. The mosque of Hebron is justly claimed by them as thesanctuary of the tomb of Abraham, but their reason for be-lieving it is thus gravely stated in the Torch of Hearts,a work written by the learned Ali, son of Jafer-ar-Rayz, onthe authenticity of the tombs of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.I rely, he says, on the testimony of Abu Horiiiruh, whothus expresses himself:—It was said by the Apostle of GodWhen the angel Gabriel made me take the nocturnal flightto Jerusalem, we passed over the tomb of Abraham, and hesaid. Descend, and make a prayer with two genuflections, forhere is the sepulchre of thy father Abraham. Then we passedBethlehem, and he said. Descend, for here was born thybrother Jesus. Then we came to Jerusalem. It may be well to notice the probable cause of this uncer-tainty of Jewish, as contrasted with the certainty of Egyptian
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MODERN SAIDA OR SIDON.The seat of an American Missionary station, and even now a place of a little importance. In the backgroundmay be seen the ruins of the ancient Sidon founded by the eldest son of Canaan. It was visited by St. Paul. THE CAVES OF PALESTINE. 525 and, we might add, of European tradition on tlie subject oftombs. However strongly the reverence for sacred gravesmay have been developed in the Jews of later times, theancient Israelites never seem to have entertained the samefeeling of regard for the resting-places or the remains of theirillustrious dead, as was carried to so high a pitch in the earlierPagan and in the later Christian world. • Let me bury mydead out of my sight,— No man knoweth of his sepulchreunto this day, express, if not the general feeling of the Jew-ish nation, at least the general sphit of the old Testament.Every one knows the most signal instance in which thisindifference was manifested. Somewhere, doubtless, near thewalls of the old Jerusalem, o

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