Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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es called the gate of theEast, being on the highway fromthe countries on the Mediterranean toMesopotamia and Arabia. Biblical History.— Next to Jeru-salem, no city is of greater interest orimportance in apostolic history thanAntioch in Syria. At this place thedisciples were first called Christians,Acts 11: 26 ; it was an important cen-tre for the spread of the gospel, Acts13; from it Paul started on his mis-sionary journeys, Acts 15 : 36; 18 : 23 ;important principles of Christian faithand practice were raised and settled ANT ANT through the church at Antioch, Acts14 : 26, 27; 15 : 2-30 ; Gal. 2 : 11-14.It was made a free city by Pom-pey, was beautified by the emperorswith aqueducts, baths, and publicbuildings; and in Pauls time itranked third in population, wealth, and commercial activity among thecities of the Roman empire. Chris-tianity gained such strength there,that in the time of Chrysostom, whowas born at Antioch, one-half ofthe 200,000 inhabitants of the citywere Christians.
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Antioch in Syria. (After Cassas. From Lewins Life of St. raul.) Present Condition.—Antioch has beenbesieged and plundered 15 times, and7 times destroyed by earthquakes, yetthe remains of its ancient walls as-tonish the traveller. They were 50feet high and 15 feet thick. Theold town, which was 5 miles long, isnow represented by a mean, shrunk-en-looking place of about 6000 popu-lation, called Antal-ieli. An earth-quake in 1872 overthrew nearly one-half of the houses; since then almosta new town has sprung up, and nearby is a silk-factory, and on the riverwater-wheels for irrigating the gar-dens. Through the Lake of Antiochflows the Nahr el-Aswad, or blackb ook, the Melanes of classic history,which empties into the Orontes 3 or 4miles above Antioch. Though themodern city is on a beautiful andexceeding^ fertile plain between themountains, and watered by the Oron-tes, the interior of the town appears56 to consist of dreary heaps of ruins,and unsightly, patched, and dilapida-ted houses,

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