 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1856 - 642 pages
...of the chariot-road through the pass from Jerusalem to Gaza', where the Ethiopian met Philip. Heuce the steep descent from Gadara is paved with the remains...that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the Canaanites' resistance, but for the tenacity with... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1856 - 710 pages
...penetrated for at least a thousand years. But in earlier times, and under ordinary circumstances, they must have always been more or less impracticable in...that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the Canaanites' resistance, but for the tenacity with... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1871 - 670 pages
...Palestine. Hence, perhaps, the mention of the chariot-road through the pass from Jerusalem to Gaza1, where the Ethiopian met Philip. Hence the steep descent...that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the Canaanites' resistance, but for the tenacity with... | |
 | William Leonard Gage - 1873 - 576 pages
...pass from Jerusalem to Gaza, where the Ethiopian met Philip. But under ordinary circumstances, they must have always been more or less impracticable in...that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the Canaanitea' resistance, but for the tenacity with... | |
 | William Leonard Gage - 1883 - 580 pages
...pass from Jerusalem to Gaza, where the Ethiopian met Philip. But under ordinary circumstances, they must have always been more or less impracticable in...that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the Canaanites' resistance, but for the tenacity with... | |
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Gaza1, where the Ethiopian met Philip. Hence the steep descent from Gadara is paved with the remains of a regular Roman road, marked by the ruts of wheels, where wheels have now never penetrated for at least a thousand years. But in earlier times, and... 