A winter pilgrimage - being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 (1901) (14778841534)

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Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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was so anxious to examine this place isthat I believe it to be the actual site of the Crucifixion, andthat here above the Damascus road, whence the passers-bylooked up and mocked at the dying figure strained uponHis cross, once the body of the Saviour hung throughthose hours of sun and darkness. What is more likelythan that the Place of Stoning should also be the Place ofCrucifixion, and what spot could be more suitable thanthis summit of a cliff, where all might see the sufferers ofthe death of shame ? It was outside of the city walls, yet near to the city.A man might bear his own cross there, since it seems nofurther from the Place of Judgment than is the Church ofthe Sepulchre. There is another point, to my mind onemost suggestive. The Crucifixion ground, called Golgothain the Hebrew and Calvaria in the Latin, whence comesour own Calvary, means in either language the Placeof the Skull. All the evangelists give it this name. St.Matthew says, a place called Golgotha, that is to say,
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The Place of Stoning GORDONS TOMB AND GOLGOTHA 309 the place of the skull. St. Mark says, the place calledGolgotha, which is, being interpreted, the place of theskull. St. Luke says, the place which is called Calvary,in the Revised Version rendered the place which iscalled the skull. St. John says, a place called theplace of the skull, which is called in the HebrewGolgotha. From such various testimony it may fairly be con-cluded that this execution-ground had something to dowith a skull. It has been suggested that it was so calledbecause skulls were left there, but then would it nothave been called the Place of Skulls? Also is it notadmitted that it was the Jewish habit to bury the bodiesof malefactors, and not to leave them to rot upon theground, as is the common custom of savages? If so,the skulls would not have remained in sight. Anothersuggestion is that the shape of the mound may haveresembled that of a skull. But nowhere in the Bible isit stated that the Crucifixion took place u