Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the sj)Ot where thewoman stood at the solemn preparation for the tomb; the place wherethe angels stood at the Resurrection; the very tomb of our Lord; thetombs of Joseph and Nicodemus; the column to which Christ wasbound when he was scourged; His prison; the scene of the parting ofthe raiment; of the crowning with thorns; of the actual crucifixion;of the rending of the rocks; of the finding of the true cross; of theburial-place of Adam, under the spot where the cross afterwards rose,the tree in which the goat offered instead of Isaac was caught, andmuch else. CHAPTER XXII.JERUSALEM—(Continued) Close to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are the ruins of theMuristan or Hospice of the Knights of St. John— muristan beingthe Arabic word for a hospital, to which part of the great pile ofbuildings that once covered the site was devoted. A few paces leadone to a fine old gateway, over which is tlie Prussian eagle, half of thesite having been given to Prussia, in 1869. The whole space, once
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street Caf6 iu Jerusalem. (See page M,i.) XXII.) JERUSALEM. 303 filled up with courts, halls, chambers, a church, and a hospital, is ovei500 feet square, and now lies, for the most part, in desolation. Thearch by wliich you enter is semicircular, and was adorned 700 yearsago with a series of figures illustrating the months—men pruning,sowing, reaping, threshing, and the like; but the carvings are nowvery much mutilated. Within, a large space has been cleared of rub-bish and abomination by the German Government, the ruins being leftto tell their story with silent eloquence. Already, in A. D. 1018, achurch had been built in Jerusalem by Italian merchants, and a hos-pital attached to it, close to a chapel consecrated to John, at that timePatriarch of Alexandria. From him, the monks, who had undertakento nurse and care for sick and poor pilgrims, took the name ofJohnites, or Brethren of the Hospital. Raised to the dignity of a sep-arate Order in a.d. 1113, they received great possession

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