 | Herbert Rix - 1907 - 406 pages
...most beautiful temple, of the whitest stone in Zenodorus's country, near the place called The Paneion. This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which...water ; over it hangs a vast mountain ; and under the caverns arise the springs of the River Jordan." The threshold of the cave is blocked now by a great... | |
 | Stephen K. Ray - 1999 - 336 pages
...sea, and was returned home, he built him a most beautiful temple, of the whitest stone of Zenodorus's country, near the place called Panium. This is a very...water; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan. Herod adorned this And they said, 'Some say John the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1999 - 1156 pages
...beautiful temple, of the whitest stone, in Zenodorus's country, near the place called Panium. (364) This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which...and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and fed by a still water; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the... | |
 | Philip Wesley Comfort, Walter A. Elwell - 2001 - 1414 pages
...historian Josephus (Antiquities 15.10.3) wrote that "Panium" was governed by Zenodorus; its cultic site was "a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there...water; over it hangs a vast mountain, and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan." After the death of Zenodorus, Augustus Caesar gave... | |
 | William Barclay - 2002 - 476 pages
...that cave was said to be the place where the sources of the Jordan sprang to life. Josephus writes: 'This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which...cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of still water. Over it hangs a vast mountain, and under the cavern arise the springs of the River Jordan'... | |
 | Craig A. Evans - 2004 - 440 pages
...this cavern that the River Jordan was said to have its source and origin. Josephus describes it: There is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there...cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of still water. Over it hangs a vast mountain, and under the cavern arise the springs of the River Jordan.'1... | |
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 452 pages
...erected to Augustus Caesar a beautiful temple of white marble near the place called Panium. ' This is a fine cave in a mountain, under which there is a great cavity in the earth ; and the cave is abrupt and very deep, and full of still water. On it hangs a vast mountain, and under the cavern... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 932 pages
...most beautiful temple, of the whitest stone of Zenodorus' country, near the place called Panium. (364) This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which...water; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan. Herod adorned this place, which was already a very remarkable... | |
 | John Charles Hugh Laughlin - 2006 - 268 pages
...(Banias). 81 Figure 21 Archaeological plan of site. "This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which is a great cavity in the earth, and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of still water; over it hangs a vast mountain, and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan."... | |
 | 1846 - 816 pages
...to the sea and was returned home, he built him a most beautiful temple of whitest stone in Zendorus' country near the place called Panium. This is a very...cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of still water ; over it hangs a vast mountain ; and under the cavera arise the springs of the Jordan.... | |
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Panium. This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there is a great cavity in the earth, and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of a still water ; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the... 
