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observation. If it be not the building erected chap. 
V. 
by Helena, on the spot where our Saviour is ',, y ' 
said to have appeared to St. Peter after his 
resurrection ^ it is probably that which Epipha- 
niiis"^ relates to have been built by a native of 
Tiberias, one Josephus^, who, under the auspices 
of Constantine, erected the churches of Sephoris^ 
and Capernaum^". The materials of which it 
consists seem to correspond with the descrip- 
tion given of the stones used for that edifice. 
Josephus, according to Epiphanius^\ when about 
to build the church, found part of an antient 
(6) John xxi. 1. " Ecclesia ab Helen& matre in isto loco fabricata, 
in suo decore pulchra permanet." Bonifacius de Perenni CiiKu 7V» r. 
Sanct. III. ii. 
(7) Epiphanii Opera, torn. II. lib. i. Adv. Har. p. 128. Paris, 1622_ 
(8) In referring: to this Josephus, Eeland uses so little precision, 
that he might be confounded with Josephus the Jewish Historian. 
" Tiberiade," sa\s he, " ante terapora Josephi uon licuit Christiano." 
{Relandi Palastina Illustrata, torn. II. p. 1038.) A preceding para- 
graph, however, states that he acted under the auspices of Constantine 
the First ; and Epiphunius, whose writings are referred to by Reland, 
cautiously avoids confounding hiin with F/avius Josephus. 
(9) See the former Chapter. 
(10) Built over the spot where St. Peter's dwelling Vas believed to 
have stood in Capernaum. See an extract from the Itinerary of 
/Intoninus the Martyr, written in the sixth century, and given in a 
former Note. Also Reland. Palast. Illust. torn. H. p. 683. Traj, 
Bat. 1714. 
(11) Epiphanii Opera, toni. II. lib. i. Adv. Her. pp. 136, <37- 
PuD-is, 1632. 
