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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a. (2) The centralsummit, or the Mount of Ascension,2665 feet in height, is situated directlyeast of the temple-area, and is the Mountof Olives proper. Three paths lead tothis summit—one by a nearly directascent, another winding around thesouthern shoulder, and a third path lead-ing around the northern shoulder. Onthe top of this peak is a chapel builtupon the site of a church erected byHelena, the mother of Constantine, sincetradition points out this spot as the placeof the ascension of Christ. The monkspoint out even the footprint made bythe ascending Lord, and the spot, a littlesouth of this, where Christ is said tohave taught the disciples the model, orLords, prayer. The true place of theascension, however, was beyond thesummit of Olivet, and near Bethany.Luke 24 : 50. (3) The third summit,about 600 yards south-west of the former,and three-fourths of a mile.from Bethany,is called the Prophets, from a curiouscatacomb called the Prophets Tombson its side. (4) The fourth summit,625
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OLI OJLI about 1000 yards from No. 3, is theMount of Offence, so called from ^heidol-worship which Solomon establishedthere. None of the depressions whichseparate these summits are very deep;some are to be regarded as quite slight.It is evident that in ancient times thismountain-ridge was covered with olives,myrtles, figs, cypresses, and some speciesof the terebinth or oak, and also aboundedin flowers. The olives and olive-yards,says Stanley, from which it derived itsname must in earlier times have clothedit far more completely than at present,where it is only in the deeper and moresecluded slopes leading up to the north-ernmost summit that these venerabletrees spread into anything like a forest.And in those times, as we see from thename of Bethany (house of dates), andfrom the allusions after the Captivityand in the gospel history, myrtle-groves,pines, and palm trees—all of which havenow disappeared—must have made it aconstant resort for pleasure and seclu-sion. Two gigantic ceda

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