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city of Greeks rather than of Jews, from whence 

 it might be inferred that to keep swine was 

 innocent and lawful." I conceive that I have 

 abundantly proved that Gadara answered exactly 

 to the description here given of it ; and I shall 

 show, by and by, that Mr. Gladstone has used 

 language which, to my mind, involves the admission 

 that the authorities of the city were not Jews. 

 But I have also taken a good deal of pains to 

 show that the question thus raised is of no 

 importance in relation to the main issue. 1 If 

 Gadara was, as I maintain it was, a city of the 

 Decapolis, Hellenistic in constitution and con- 

 taining a predominantly Gentile population, my 

 case is superabundantly fortified. On the other 

 hand, if the hypothesis that Gadara was under 

 Jewish government, which Mr. Gladstone seems 

 sometimes to defend and sometimes to give up, 

 were accepted, my case would be nowise weakened. 

 At any rate, Gadara was not included within the 

 jurisdiction of the tetrach of Galilee ; if it had 

 been, the Galileans who crossed over the lake to 



1 Neither is it of anv consequence whether the locality of the 

 supposed miracle was Gadara, or Gerasa, or Gergesa. But I may 

 say that I was well acquainted with Origen's opinion respecting 

 Gergesa. It is fully discussed and rejected in Riehm's Hand- 

 worterbuch. In Kitto's Biblical Cyclopaedia (ii. p. 51) Professor 

 Porter remarks that Origen merely " conjecture* " that Gergesa 

 was indicated ; and he adds, "Now, in a question of this kind 

 conjectures cannot be admitted. We must implicitly follow the 

 most ancient and creditable testimony, which clearly pronounces 

 in favour of Ta^aprjv&v. This reading is adopted by Tischendorf, 

 Alford, and Tregelles." 



