V. 
222 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. The office of Patriarch was hereditary; and 
appeared with some lustre under the Emperor 
Adriayi, in the person of Simon the Third'. In 
the beginning of the Jifth century ^ the Patri- 
archate was suppressed, after having subsisted 
three hundred and fifty years\ In the sixth, 
Justinian, according to Procopius, rebuilt the 
walls*. In the seventh century ^ the city was 
taken by the Saracens, under Caliph Omar ; yet, 
in the eighth, we find it mentioned in an Itine- 
rary cited by Reland, as still containing many 
churches and Jeiuish synagogue s^ Various 
medals are extant of the city, bearing different 
inscriptions ^ These are interesting, not only 
(1) jBgmonf and Heyman, vol. II. p. 31. 
(2) A. D. 429. Ibid. 
(3] See Basnage^s Hist, of the Jews. 
(4) Procop. lib. v. c. 9. de ^Edijic. Justinian. 
(5) A. D. 640. See Basnage ; Egmont and Heyman; &c. The 
Emperor Heraclius visited this place A. D. 620, as appears from the 
yvntings of jflnastasius (Histor. ji. 101). Tiberiadem adiiset, accusavere 
Christiani Benjamin quendam nomine, quasi mala sibi facientem (erat 
enim admodum opulentus) qui suscepit Imperatorem et exercitum ejus. 
Ast imperator damnavit eum ; * Quamobrem,' inquiens, ♦ molestus es 
Christianis ?' qui ait, ' Ut inimicis fidei meae.' Tunc Imperator admoni- 
tum hunc, et ad credendum suasum baptizavit in aedibus Eustachii Nea- 
politani, qui et ipse cum Christianus esset Imperatorem excepit." Rel. 
Palcsst. torn. 11. p. 1040. 
(6) Itin. Willibaldi. Bel. Palcest. ibid. 
(7) Vid. Harduin. Num. Antiq. p. 498. Paris, 1684. Putin, p. 185. 
Vaillant Numis. Imper at. August, et Cevsar. p. 374. Paris, 1698, &c. 
