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Jesus Christ Before His Ministry (1896) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER I THE CHILDHOOD OP JESUS JESUS was brought up at Nazareth.
In the middle of the eighth century of Rome, about 1890 years ago,1
this was the name2 of a small town hidden away among the hills of
Galilee, and making part of the Roman province of Syria. It was
twenty-five leagues north of Jerusalem, and eight or nine hours'
walk from Capernaum. Its general aspect was dull and mean. Nazareth
was a cluster of cubical houses without character or elegance,
built in terraces in the hollow of an amphitheatre of rocky hills.
Irregularly disposed, they formed a confused medley of small white
1 It is impossible to fix the exact date. The first ten or twelve
years of Jesus' life must have lain between the years of Rome 760
and 765. 2 According to the best manuscripts, the correct Greek
transliteration of this word is Nazara; but we retain the name
Nazareth, consecrated by usage. J flat-roofed dwellings,
threshing-floors and wine-presses. Here were pits hollowed out of
the ground; there tombs hewn out of the rock. The fig-tree, the
olive, the cactus grew everywhere, and now and then, between the
houses, a tiny field of wheat. The streets were rough and uneven;
and the lanes, narrow, crooked, and steep, were often crossed by
streamlets from the ravines in the hills north of the town. We are
told that Nazareth contained three or four thousand inhabitants.
This estimate is certainly excessive. Judging by the small area
which it covered, Nazareth was a mere village. It is true that in
the Orient men and beasts can huddle themselves into a very small
space; but we cannot credit more than fifteen hundred or two
thousand inhabitants to a village which had only one synagogue, one
fountain, and one public square. The fountain is still there.
Springs do not change. Th...
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