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adorned their burial-places with trees and gardens : chap. 
. VII. 
and the iomb of this Jetv is accordingly described ^— ^— ' 
as being in a gardex ; " in the place u-here our 
Saviour 7vas cruc'tfied\'' It is moreover worthy of 
observation, that every one of the Evangelists 
(and, among these, " he that saw it, and bare 
record ^'') affirm, that the place of Crucifixion 
was '' the place of a Scull;" that is to say, a public 
Coemetery^ ''called, in the Hebrew Golgotha ;" odgotka, 
^ _ or Calvary. 
without the city, and very near to one of its 
gates. St. Luke calls it Calvary, which has the 
same signification. The church, now supposed 
to mark the site of the Holy Sepulchre, does not 
exhibit any evidence which might entitle it to 
either of these appellations. It may therefore 
be surmised, that upon the opposite summit, 
now called Mount Sion, without the walls, the 
Crucifixion of the Messiah was actually accom- 
plished ? Perhaps some evidences, that we 
(1) John xix.41. 
(2) Ibid. ver. 35. 
(3) Reland says, that the hill was called Golgotha, from its resem- 
hlance to the shape of a human scull. — " Golgotham collem exiguum a 
formd crmiii humani dictum, quam referebat, notum est." (Palastina 
lUmtratn, lib. iii. torn. II. p. 860. Utrecht, 1714.) But the words of the 
Gospel do not imply this. The hill is expressly denominated " the 
place of a Scull" by all the Evangelists. And, indeed, the circumstance 
of the Tomb of Joncnh of Arimathca being there situate, is a com- 
plete proof that it was a place of burial. 
