OF PART THE SECOND. ix 
been rendered memorable for the sufferings of 
our Saviour; but the name existed before 
the Christian sera. The epithet of Holy had 
been apphed to every thing connected with 
the Jewish people ; among whom, not only their 
cities, their priests, and their temple, bore this 
epithet, but their whole territory, by way of 
eminence, was pecuHarly considered as *' Holy 
Land'' That Fhcenice was included within its 
boundaries, is evident from the book oi Joshua^ 
which extends the borders of the tribe of Asher 
from Carmel unto Sidon. Hence Maundrell 
judiciously observes ^ "Near about Sidon begin 
the precincts of the Holy Land, and of that part 
of it in particular which was allotted to Asher.' 
Phcenice is thus proved to have constituted a 
portion of the Holy Land; and that Palcestine 
did not include Phcenice is decidedly manifest 
from a passage in HER0D0TUS^ wherein Phoe- 
nice, PaliPstine, and the Island of Cyprus, are 
separately enumerated. Cluverius, defining 
(5) Joshua, xix. 24 to 31. 
(6) Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 45. Oxf. 1721. 
(7) "Efl'Ti Se £v TM vouM Tourai <t>amxn rs ^offcc »ai 'Svl/i i HaXaKxr'.vyt 
icuXiof/Ayti no.) Kv'T^ii;, Thalia, cap. 9 1 . 
Reland has cited a passage from a most antient flebrew commentaiy 
upon Genesis, wherein a similar distinction is, as decisively, marked : 
Et erat fames in omnibus terris, sc. in tribus terris, Phoenicia [Uajam 
turn scribehunt, barbate, 2»'o Plucnice), Arabia, et Palestina." Relandi 
Pal(Estina, cap. 7. ia Thesaur. Antiq. Sacrar. torn. VI. 33, 34. yenet. 
1746. 
