PREFACE* 
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eient Heathen writers, Herodotus expressly states that 
country to have been called Palaestine , which extended 
from the boundaries of Egypt to those of Phoemce.Q?) 
Thus, having summed all the evidence which can be 
adduced upon this point, it may be manifest that the use 
of the term Palaestine , as applied to all that country 
originally called the Land of the Israelites , is a geographi¬ 
cal error ; that its application is most erroneous when 
it is made to comprehend to Phtsenice; (q) and further, 
that the proper general appellation is, The Holy Land— 
a name applied to it by Jewish as well as by Christian 
writers* (r) Even Reland, who preferred the use of the 
word Palaestina , as a more sounding appellation for the 
title of his book, says that Terra Sancta is a name doubly 
applicable to the region his work illustrates. (s) And 
surely, without imputation of superstition or of bigotry, so 
long as the blessings of Religion diffuse their consolitary 
balm of hope, and peace, and gladness, this land may be 
accounted holy(f)— holy, as consecrated by the residence 
of the Deity, through all the ages of Jewish history—- 
holy , as sanctified by the immediate presence, and by the 
blood of our Redeemer— holy , as the habitation of Patri¬ 
archs, Prophets, and Apostles— u Quam Terrain,” to use 
the energetic language of Urban the Second, in his elo¬ 
quent address to the council of Clermont, u merito sane- 
tarn diximus, inqua non est etiam passus pedis, quern non 
illustraverit et sanctificaverit vel corpus, vei umbra Sal- 
vatoris, vel gloriosa pr^esentise Sanctas Dei Genitricis, vel 
ip) Herodot. in Polyhymn , that is to say, from Egypt to Joppa. The Whole country 
was maritime, “ Situs regionis Philistaea est maratimus, ab Joppa ad JEgypti fines. ,r 
Cellar, lib. iii. cap. 13. tom. II. p. 535. Lips. 1706. 
(q) The Greeks, after the time of Herodotus, on account of the great power of the 
Philistines, comprehended under the name of Palestine, the four provinces of Idumaea, 
Judaea, Samaria, and Galilaea, although never Phaenicia, quia saepe regionihus tn - 
buntur nomina a parle alique quae vicinas antecellit potentia Quaresmii E lucid. Terr. 
Sanct. lib. 1. c. 2. tom. I. p. 6. Ardverv. 1639. 
(r) See “ Exempla Scrip tor uvi Judaicorum et Ckristianomm qui hoc nomen nsurpantfi aS 
they are given by Reland, in his chapter “De Nomine Terrae Sanctae.” Vide The - 
saur. Antiq. Sacrar. Ugolini, vol. VI. xvii. xvjii. 
(s) ■ Dupliciratione noraen Terrae Sanctae huic regioni tribwtur, aliter a Judaeit, 
aliter a Cbristianis. Ibid. 
( t ) Q,uis epim non rapitur in admirationem et stuporem, qui Montem Oliviferum, 
'Mare Tiberiadis, Jordanem, Hierosoiymam, et alia loca, quae Christum frequentasse 
uotum est, conspicit et menti suae praesentem sistit generis liumani sospitatorem, 
lllic ea operantem aut passuua, quae originem dedere sacris &ij[ds tig. strum ejqs mmm 
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