The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal (14775718381)

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Title: The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 Zenos, Andrew C. (Andrew Constantinides), 1855-1942, joint ed Willett, Herbert L. (Herbert Lockwood), 1864-1944, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago : The Howard-Severance company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ace even among the spurious writings. of four townships or quarters, each surroundedby a separate wall, and all four by a common wall.The first was built by Seleucus Nicator, who peo-pled it with inhabitants from Antigonia; the sec-ond by the settlers belonging to the first quarter;the third by Seleucus Callinicus; and the fourthby Antiochus Epiphanes (Strabo, xvi :2; iii:354).It was the metropolis of Syria (Antiochiam, Syriacaput. Tac. Hist. ii:/9), the residence of the Sy-rian kings (the Seleucidae) (iMacc. ui:37; vii:2),and afterwards became the capital of the Romanprovinces in Asia. It ranked third, after Romeand Alexandria, among the cities of the empire(Joseph., De Bell.Jud. iii:2, sec. 41, and was littleinferior in size and splendor to the latter, or toSeleucia (Strabo, xvi;2; vol. iii, p, 355, ed.Tauch.). In the immediate neighborhood in a luxuriantgrove was the suburb Daphne, with its cel-ebrated sanctuary of Apollo (2 Mace. iv:33);whence the city was sometimes called Antioch
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Antioch. (See the articles on the several epistles and theRevelation.) W. \y. ANTI-LIBANUS (antMiba-nus). See Leb-anon. ANTIOCH (anti-ok), (Gr.Arrt6Xeta, an-tee-okh,i-a). Two pi,ices of this name are mentioned inthe New Testament. (1) In Syria. A city on the banks of theOrontes, 300 miles north of Jerusalem, and about30 from the Mediterranean. It was situated inthe province of Seleucis, called Tetrapolis (Terpa-ttoXis), from containing the four cities, Anti-och, Seleucia, Apamea, and Laodicea; of whichthe first was named after Antiochus, the fatherof the founder; the second after himself; thethird after his wife Apamea, and the fourth inhonor of his mother. The appellation Tetrapoliswas given also to Antioch, because it consisted by Daphne. A multitude of Jews resided in it.Seleucus Nicator granted them the rights of citi-zenship, and placed them on a perfect equality withthe other inhabitants (Joseph. Antiq. xii 13, sec. 1).These privileges were continued to them by Ves-pasian and Ti