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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
The intense interest which has been associated with Jerusalem and the Holy Land by every class and every nation of Christians, has latterly been assisted by many concurrent circumstances. Steam has bridged the Mediterranean, and overcome the desert, effecting even the removal of Moslem prejudices hitherto insurmountable. The examination of the principal localities of Palestine, endeared to the pious of every nation, has aroused universal inquiry, and a visit to Jerusalem has superseded Italy, and even Greece and Egypt, in the “grand tour“ to which our own excursionists formerly limited their attention. A critical study of Biblical history has vindicated its proper place among the mere elegances and artistic delights of European travel, and the ground trodden by “the blessed feet” of the Messiah is now the beaten track of all the world, and the subject of nearly universal contemplation.
page 16 note * Ali Bey's Travels. London, 1816. Vol. ii., p. 218Google Scholar.
page 17 note * R. Curzon's visit to the Levant, passim.
page 17 note † In 1802, a renegade Christian, who had adopted Mahomedanism, and taken the name Ali Bey, obtained an interview with Sir Joseph Banks, then President of the Royal Society. He represented to Sir Joseph that he, as a Hadgi, could command an entry into the two Kaabas, or most sacred enclosure of Jerusalem and Mecca, and that having acquired the knowledge of making plans and measurements, he would undertake to prepare plans of the holy places in both Kaabas. The offer being accepted, Ali Bey fully executed the purpose of his mission.
page 19 note * Heb. xi. 8.
page 19 note † Gen. xxii. 3.
page 19 note ‡ Gen. xxii. 4.
page 20 note * Gen. xxi. 33.
page 20 note † Gen. xxii. 5.
page 20 note ‡ Gen. xxii. 12.
page 20 note § Gen. xxii. 14.
page 22 note * 2 Sam. xxiv. 18–25.
page 22 note † Such is the price mentioned in I Chron. xxi. 25, while fifty shekels of silver are named in reference to the transaction in 2 Sam. xxiv. 24. The apparent discrepancy has been explained, we conceive satisfactorily, by regarding the larger price as paying for the threshing-floor, and the smaller price for the oxen and the wood. A shekel of gold was worth 18s. 3d., and a shekel of silver about 2S. 3d., English money.
page 22 note ‡ I Chron. xxi. 18–30.
page 22 note § Judges vi. 20.
page 23 note * Exodus xx. 26.
page 25 note * Ezra viii. 35.
page 28 note * John xix. 20.
page 28 note † Heb. xiii. 12.