Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to support both claims atonce. No residence, at the time of the Christian era, couldever have stood within the precincts of the Royal Sepulchre.We now approach the most sacred of all the Holy Places;in comparison of which, if genuine, all the rest sink into in-significance ; the interest of which, even if not genuine, standsabsolutely alone in the world. I shall not attempt to unravelthe tangled controversy of the identity of the Holy Sepul-chre. Everything which can be said against that identity willbe found in the Biblical Researches of Dr. Robinson—every-thing which can be said in its favor will be found in the HolyCity of Mr. Williams, including, as it does, the able discussionon the architectural history of the church by Professor Willis.It is enough to state that the argument mainly turns on thesolution of two questions, one historical, the other topographi-cal. The historical question rests on the value of the tradi-tioa that the spot was marked before the time of Constantine
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■rriR HuLY sEPULciiu i:. THE SITE OF THE HOLY SEPUT.CHRE. 463 by a temple or statue of Venus, which the Emperor Hadrianhad erected in order to pollute a spot already in his time re-garded as sacred by the Christians. The topographical questionis, whether the present site can be proved to have stood with-out the walls of Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion.On the historical question the advocates of the identity of theSepulchre never have fairly met the difficulty, that it is hardlyconceivable that Hadrian could have had any motive in sucha purpose, when his whole object in establishing his new cityof ^lia was to insult not the Christians, but the Jews, fromwhom, in Palestine at that time, the Christians were emphati-cally divided. And it is at least curious that to the corres-ponding tradition respecting Hadrians temple of Adonis atBethlehem, there is no allusion whatever by Justin, or byOrigen, though speaking of the very cave in which the Pagantemple is said to have been erec

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