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New Testament Hours

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JERUSALEM IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST. The Holy City lies in the central hills of Palestine, halfway between their western edge, on the inner side of the broad, rich, sea-coast plain, and their slope towards the Dead Sea, with the north end of which it is on a line. It is, indeed, exactly on the watershed, the rain-torrents streaming east and west from it towards the Mediterranean on the one side and the Dead Sea on the other. This silent, lifeless expanse, the Sea of Lot of the Arabs, with the flat line of the tableland of Moab on the farther side of its deep blue, is a striking feature in the view from the Mount of Olives; the landscape sinking towards it in great yellow steps to its waters, fifteen or sixteen miles off, but four thousand feet below, for Jerusalem lies nearly two thousand five hundred feet above the Mediterranean, the Mount of Olives rising over two hundred feet higher, while the Dead Sea lies nearly thirteen hundred feet below sea level. To the west of the Holy City the horizon is shut in close at hand by a number of bare gray swells of limestone, a little higher than Jerusalem, the only vegetation on which is threads of aromatic shrubs, rising along the innumerable cracks which seam the stone in every direction, like the markings on brain coral. This scanty growth, though the only pasture of any sheep or goats of the neighbourhood, is not sufficient, however, to soften the drearydesolation; for not only is it not green, but its amount is not great enough to shew at all from a distance. A stretch of level ground connects the city with the north, all the other sides being separated from the country beyond by deep valleys. To the south, across the valley of Hinnom, the eye ranges over bare, brownish-gray, round swells, towards Hebron; those ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217241861
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217241867
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 259 gr


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