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Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of the trump be heard when the Lord ■ came down inthe sight of all the people on mount Sinai. We gave our-selves up to the impressions of the awful scene, and read,with a feeling that will never be forgotten, the sublime^account of the transaction, and the commandmen s theiepromulgated in the original words as recorded by the greatHebrew legislator. Ex. 19: 9-25! 20; l~2U .f . Dean Itanley says of the same place, I am sure if hemonks of Justinian had fixed the traditional scene on theRas Sufsafeh, no one would, for an instant, have doubtedthat this could be the only spot. - Schaff, in referring to this matter, says, I fully satisfied my mind that Ras Sufsafeh is the platform from whichthe law was proclaimed. Here all the conditions requiredby the Scripture narrative are combined.X A calculation made by Captain Palmer, from actualmeasurements taken on the spot, proves that the space ex-truding from the base of the mountain to the watershed or * Biblical Researches, pages i$7> i$8-
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456 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. « crest of the plain, is large enough to have accommodatedthe entire host of the Israelites, estimated at two millionsouls, with an allowance of about one square yard for eachindividual.* Bartlett, after surveying the district careful-ly, was forced to the conclusion that this was the great pul-pit from which the law was given, and did not hesitate asingle moment to add his vote to that of Robinson, Stan-ley, Palmer, Holland, and the whole Ordinance Survey. It is interesting to know that there is a locality atMount Sinai that meets all the Scriptural requirements, andthat all questions as to the place are settled beyond any reasonable doubt. Dr. Bartlett gives the following account of his ap-proach and visit to Mount Sinai: Meanwhile we weretoiling up the rough and rocky pass of a huge mountaingorge, flanked by somber, weather-beaten cliffs of dark red,occasionally seamed with colors, and near a thousand feethigh. The pass, though much longer, was scarc

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