Mizraim; and the princes who governed it, were, in virtue of their office, styled Pharoahs or kings, until the time of Solomon, after which they are designated in the Scriptures by their proper names. After the captivity, Egypt became a place of great resort to the Jews,

ELAH, Valley of. See p. 238.

supra.

EMMAUS, a small village of Judæa, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem. It is memo

rable for the very interesting conversation between Jesus Christ and two of his disciples in the evening of the day of his resurrection. (Luke xxiv.)

EPHESUS, a city on the western coast of Asia Minor, and the metropolis of the proconsular Asia, was celebrated for the magnificent temple erected there in honour of Diana. In the time of Saint Paul, this city abounded with orators and philosophers; and its inhabitants, in their Gentile state, were celebrated for their idolatry and skill in magic, as well as for their luxury and lasciviousness. Ephesus is now under the dominion of the Turks, and is in a state of almost total ruin.

EPHRAIM, a considerable city of Judæa, eight miles north of Jerusalem, and near a desert of the same name; to which Jesus Christ retired after he had raised Lazarus from the dead. (John xi. 54.)

GADARA, the metropolis of Peræa, or the region beyond Jordan, was situated on the eastern shore of the lake of Gennesareth, opposite to Tiberias, from which it was about

GALATIA, a province of Asia
Minor, bounded on the west by
Phrygia, on the east by the river
Halys, on the north by Paphla-
gonia, and on the south by Ly-
caonia. The Galatians were the
descendants of those Gauls who,
finding their own country too
small to support its redundant
population, emigrated from it
after the death of Alexander
the Great, B C. 278. During
the reign of Augustus (A.v.c.
529. B.C. 26.) Galatia was re-
duced into a Roman province,
and was thenceforth governed
by the Roman laws, under the
administration of a pro-prætor.
This country was the seat of
colonies from various nations,
among whom were many Jews;
and from all these St. Paul ap-
pears to have made numerous
converts to Christianity. (Gal.i.
2. 1 Cor. xvi. 1. 2 Tim. iv. 10.
1 Pet. i, 1.)

GALILEE, Upper and Lower.
See p. 219. supra.

GALILEE, Sea of. See p. 232,

pra.

See p. 220. su-

GAZA, a very celebrated city of
the Jews, distant about 60 miles
south-west from Jerusalem: it
was one of the five cities of the
Philistines, which fell by lot to
the tribe of Judah (Josh. xv. 47.)
The city of Gaza, mentioned in
Acts viii. 26., was erected near
the site of old Gaza, which, after
being taken by Alexander the
Great, was subsequently des-
troyed (B. c. 96.) by Alexander
Jannæus, a prince of the Jews.

GENNESARETH, the name of a
region and lake, in the vicinity
of which were several towns,
where Jesus Christ dwelt, taught,

and performed miracles, See a
notice of the lake of Gennesareth
in p. 232. supra.

GERGESA, a city annexed to
Peræa, and supposed to have
been situated in the country adja-
cent to Gadara. (Matt. viii. 28.
Luke viii. 26.)

GERIZIM, Mount. See p. 236.

supra.

GETHSEMANE, a garden be-
yond Kedron, at the foot of
Mount Olivet, so called from
the wine-presses in it: it is me.
morable in the evangelical his-
tory, as being the scene of our
Saviour's agony.

GILEAD, Mountains of. See
p. 236. supra.

GOLGOTHA. See p. 222. supra.
GOMORRAH, one of the cities
which formerly occupied the re-
gion now covered by the Dead
Sca; for the history of its de-
struction see Gen. xix.

GREECE, in the Scriptures,
often comprehends all the coun-
tries inhabited by the descen-
dants of Javan, as well in Greece
as in Ionia, and Asia Minor.
Since the time of Alexander the
Great, the name of Greeks is
taken in a more uncertain and
enlarged sense, because the
Greeks being masters of Egypt
and Syria, of the countries be
yond the Euphrates, &c. the
Jews called all those Gentiles
Greeks.

HEBRON, a city of Judæa, was
situated on an eminence, twenty
miles southward of Jerusalem,
and twenty miles north from
Beersheba. It was a place of
considerable note in the early
history of the Hebrews. Here
Zechariah and Elizabeth resided,
and John the Baptist was born.

HIERAPOLIS, a city of Phrygia,

the priests and Levites, 12,000
of whom dwelt there; and as
the way thither from Jesusalem
was rocky and desert, it was
greatly infested with thieves;
this circumstance marks the ad-
mirable propriety with which
our Lord made it the scene of
his beautiful parable of the good
Samaritan. (Luke x. 30—37.)
It is now a miserable village.
JERUSALEM, City of. See
pp. 221-225. supra.
JEZREEL. Plain of.
See p.
239. supra.

JOPPA, now called Jaffa, was
antiently the chief part of Ju-
dæa: it lies on the Mediter-
ranean, about west north-west
of Jerusalem, This place is
supposed to be of great anti-
quity. The Gospel was early
planted here. (Acts ix, x, xi.)
JORDAN, River.

supra.

See p.

230.

JUDAH, Desert of. See p. 240.

magnificence remains. (Col. ii. 1. iv. 13. 15, 16. Rev. i. 11.) LASEA, a maritime city of Crete, visited by St. Paul. (Acts xxvii. 8.)

LEBANON, Mount. See p.

234. supra.

LIBYA, a region of Africa, lying west of Egypt, on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. (Acts ii. 10.)

LYCAONIA, a region of Asia Minor, bounded on the north by Galatia; on the east by Cappadocia; on the south, by Isauria and Cilicia, and on the west by Phrygia, Of its various cities, Iconium, Derbe, and Lystra, are mentioned in Acts xiv. 6.

LYDDA, a large village of Palestine, not far from Joppa. Acts ix. 32. 34. 38.)

LYSTRA, a city of Asia Minor, now called Latik. (Acts xiv. 6. 8. 10, 11. 21. xvi. 1.)

MACEDONIA, a region lying north of Greece Proper: it was bounded on the north by the mountains of Hamus, on the south by Epirus and Achaia, on the east by the Ægean, on the west by the Ionian and Adriatic seas. To this country, whose metropolis was then Thessalonica, St. Paul was called by a vision (Acts xvi. 9.); and the churches planted by him in it, are celebrated for their great charity, and ready contribution to the distressed Jews in Judæa (2 Cor. viii, ix.)

MAGDALA, a city and territory beyond Jordan, on the western side of the lake of Gennesareth. It reached to the bridge above Jordan, which joined it to the other side of Galilee, and contained within its precincts DALMANUTHA; hence, while Mat

thew says (xv. 19.), ́Christ came into the coasts of Magdala, St. Mark says more particularly (viii. 10.), that he came into the parts of Dalmanutha,

MEDIA, a vast region of Asia, having on the north the Caspian Sea, on the West Armenia and Assyria, on the south Persia, on the east Hyrcania and Parthia. In the Babylonian captivity, the Jews were carried captive into Assyria, and placed in the cities of the Medes. (2 Kings xvii. 6. and xviii. 11.) Hence we find many of them and their proselytes at Jerusalem, when the Holy Ghost fell on the apostles. (Acts ii. 9.)

MELITE, or Malta, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, on which Saint Paul was wrecked. (Acts xxviii. 1.)

MESOPOTAMIA, a famous province, situated between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. The Hebrews call it Aram Nakaraim, or Aram of the rivers, because it was first peopled by Aram, father of the Syrians, and is situated between two rivers.

MIDIAN, in Arabia Petræa, the land into which Moses fled from the Egyptians. (Acts vii. 29.) Here Jethro lived. (Exod. xii. 11.)

MIGDOL, a frontier town of Lower Egypt, towards the Red Sea, between which and that sea the Israelites encamped. (Exod. xiv. 1.)

MILETUS, a sea-port of Asia Minor, and a city of Ionia, where Saint Paul delivered to the elders of the church of Ephesus that affecting discourse which is recorded in Acts XI. 17-35. There was another Miletus in Crete, where St. Paul left Trophimus sick. (2 Tim. iv. 20.)