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Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ble place for a public garden. The place is soplainly indicated in the Scripture narrative, as toleave no room to doubt but that this enclosure is apart of the ancient Garden of Gethsemane. And hesaid, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee;take away this cup from me : nevertheless, not whatI will, but what thou wilt. (St. Mark xiv. 36.) HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL. This hill takes its name from a tradition that the re-sidence of Caiaphas was located upon its summit, andthat here the chief priests and scribes assembledtogether to take counsel against Jesus. It rises to aheight of nearly five hundred feet above the pool ofSiloam, and is situated near the lower part of thevalley. THE PLACE OF CRUCIFIXION. The question as to where the Crucifixion did takeplace has been carried on until recently without anyreasonable determination. It has been supposed that the Holy SepulchreChurch included the place of the Crucifixion, but thecourse of the ancient walls, which have now been .W/iii.ii^^
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9, 463 very accurately traced out, has settled that pointagainst the claim that this church covered the truesite, although there is undoubted historical evidencethat it was originally built in the fourth century,and on a site which was traditionally said to havebeen the Calvary of the Gospel narrative. Buttwo or three hundred years must have impaired thetradition, for it can be safely said that the name andskull-shaped hill over the Jeremiah Grotto shouldhave pointed out the right place to all observing eyes.We Imow from a comparison of the plans of the cityin the time of Arculf, a.d. 700, of the Crusaders,1190, and also in Sandys, 1610, that the location ofSt. Stephens Gate had been changed fi-om the northside of the city, now called Damascus Gate, to theeast side, where it is now, and which was known asthe Little Gate, a.d. 700, and Jehoshaphat Gate in theCrusades. Attention was called to the probability of the trueBite being north of the city 20 years ago by Thenius,whose views wer

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