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Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Crusaders, were laid bare in 1873 ;a range of stone mangers showing that it had been the old hostelry ofthe Templars, which was just outside the Damascus Gate, then knownas that of St. Stephen. The spade and pickaxe have still much tounearth, at every step round the city. In the mouth of the cave aMahommedan family has a cottage, and thus, as the ground over thecavern is a Mahommedan burial-place, this household sleep nightlyunderneath the dead, from whom thej are divided by only a thin stripof rock. This spot, according to Rabbinical tradition, was once theHouse of Stoning, that is, the place of public execution under theJewish law. This is noteworthy, in connection with the question ofthe site of Calvary. There is little in the New Testament to fix the exact position of the mount on which our Lord was crucified, though the statement thatHe suffered without the gate^ is enough to prove that the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre is not on the true site. The name Golgotha, 1 Heb. xiii. 12. i
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IM*!;! ; ■XXV.) GETHSEMANE AND CALVARY. 361 *tbe Place of a Skull, may well have referred rather to the shape ofthe ground than to the place so called being that of public execution,and, if this be so, a spot reminding one of a skull by its form must besought, outside the city. It must, besides, be near one of the greatroads, for those who were passing by are expressly noticed in theGospels.^ That Joseph of Arimathtea carried the body to his own newtomb, hewn out in the rock, and standing in the midst of a garden,outside the city,2 requires, further, that Calvary should be found nearthe great Jewish cemetery of the time of our Lord. This lay on thenorth side of Jerusalem, stretching from close to the gates, along thedifferent ravines, and up the low slopes which rise on all sides. Thesepulchre of Simon the Just, dating from the third century beforeChrist, is in this part, and so also is the noble tomb of Helena, Queenof Adiabene, hewn out in the first century of our era, and still f

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