Palestine: Or, the Holy Land : From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Palestine: Or, the Holy Land : From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Russell Michael
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dently revolting to a people who permit not any image or representation of created things^ even in the uses of ordinary life. Still the sincerity and apparent devotion with which the ceremony of the Crucifixion was performed might in some degree atone for the unseemly method adopted by the monks to commemorate an event at once so solemn and important. But what shall be said in defence t>f the manifest fraud which is annually practised in Jerusalem on Easter-eve by the Greek church, when the cre...dulous multitude are taught to believe that fire descends from heaven into the Holy Sepulchre to kindle their lamps and torches ? Upon comparing the description given by Maun, drell with the accounts of the latest travellers, we perceive that nearly a century and a half has passed away without producing any improvement, and that the fiiars of the present age are probably not less ignorant or dishonest than their predecessors five hundred years ago. '* They began their disorders by running round the Holy Sepulchre with all their might and swiftness, ctying out as they went, huta, which signifies this is he, or this is it, — an expres* sion by which they assert the verity of the Chris.
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