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geographical error ; that its application is most 
erroneous, when it is made to comprehend 
Phoenice ' ; and, further, that the proper general 
appellation is The Holy Land — a name applied 
to it by Jeivish, as well as by Christian writers^. 
Even Re LAND, who preferred the use of the 
word Palcestina as a more sounding appellation 
for the title of his book, says that Terra S ancta 
is a name doubly applicable to the region his 
work illustrates ^ And surely, so long as the 
blessings of Religion diffuse their consolatory 
balm of hope, and peace, and gladness, this 
land may be accounted holy"— holy, as conse- 
crated by the residence of the Deity through all 
the ages of Jewish history — holy, as sanctified 
(1) The Greeks, after the time of Herodotus, on account of the great 
power of the Philistines, comprehended under the name of Palcestine 
the four provinces of Idumcea, Judaa, Samaria, and Galilcca, although 
never Phoenice, " quia scepe regionibus tribuuntur jiomina a parte 
aliqud, qwB vicinas antecellit potentia." (Juaresmii Elueid. Terr. Sanct, 
lib. \. c. 2. torn. \. p. 6. Anlv. 1639. 
(2) See *' Exempla scriptoi-iim Judaicornm et Christianorum qui 
Iwc nomen tisiirpant," as they are given by Reland, in his chapter 
' DE Nomine Terrs Sancts.' Vid. Thesaurus Antiq. Sacrar. Ugo- 
Uni, vol. VI. xvii, xviii. 
(3) " Duplici ratione nonien Terra Sancta huic region! tribuitur, 
aliter a Judteis, aliter a Christianis." Ibid. 
(4) " Quis enim non rapitur in admirationem et stuporem, qui 
Montem Oliviferum, Mure Tiberiadis, Jordanem, Hierosolymam, et 
alia loca, quae Christum frequentAsse notum est, conspicit, et menti 
suae praesentem sistit generis humani sospitatorem, illic ea operantem 
aut passum, quae originem dedere sacris Christianorum ejus nomen 
confitentium !" Thesaur. Antiq. Sac, Ugolitii, ibid. 
