Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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ofHiram and Solomon, though the suggestionof Sir Emerson Tennent that they went toPoint de Galle,in Ceylon, is very probable. Tarsus, the capital of the province of Ci-licia, a large and populous city in a fruitfulplain on the river Cydmus, which flowedthrough the midst of it with a swift stream Roman citizenship; and therefore Paul musthave inherited that privilege in some otherway. Afterward, indeed, it became a col-ony (q. v.), and so entitled to the right ofcitizenship; but this was at a period longsubsequent. Tarsus is now a town withabout twenty thousand inhabitants, and isdescribed as being a den of poverty, filth,and ruins. (Acts ix., 11, 30; xi., 25; xxi.,39; xxii.,3.) Tartarus, a place mentioned by the laterGreek poets as being situated in the infer-nal regions, the abode of the spirits of wick-ed men, where they suffer the punishmentdue to their crimes committed on earth.Homer represents it as a subterranean re-gion as far below Hades as heaven is abovethe earth. See Hell.
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Tarsus. of remarkably cold water. Strabo speaksmost highly of its eminence in schools ofphilosophy. He enumerates many learnedmen who had sprung from it. At one time,in its schools and in the number of its learn-ed men, it was the rival of Athens and Alex-andria. In allusion to this, perhaps, Paulsays that he was born in Tarsus, a citizenof no mean city. It was a free city, i. e.,one which, though under Rome, lived underits own laws and chose its own magistrates.This freedom was granted to it by Antony.This, though it implied government toy itsown laws and magistrates, and freedom fromtribute, did not of itself confer the right of Taxes. 1. Jewish.—Under the Mosaic sys-tem the taxes laid upon the people consist-ed of tithes (q. v.), the first-fruits (q. v.), andthe redemption-money paid by the first-bornto be redeemed for the service of the priest-hood and the Temple, which were perform-ed toy the tribe of Levi.1 There were alsofree-will offerings, one of which was laterconverted by

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