PREFACE® 
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Holy Land. Palestine differed from the Holy Land* 
as a part may be said to differ from the whole. Brocar- 
dus evidently considers the first as being a part of the 
second.(o) On this account the author has preferred 
the name of the Holy Land, as being the only general 
appellation which can be said classically to comprehend 
the whole of that territory, distinguished as the Land of 
Promise to the Israelites, and by the passion of Jesus 
Christ.(p) It has been erroneously supposed that the 
appellation “ Terra Sancta” originated in the writings of 
Christians, who indefinitely applied it to that district of 
Syria memorable for the sufferings of our saviour; but 
the name existed before the Christian asra. The epithet 
of Holy had been applied to every thing connected with 
the Jewish people; among whom, not only their cities, 
their priests, and their temples, had this epithet, but 
their whole territory, by way of eminence, was peculiarly 
considered as “ Holy Land .” That Phoenice was in¬ 
cluded within its boundaries, is evident from the book of 
Joshua, (q) which extends the borders of the tribe of 
Asher from Carmel unto Sidon. Hence Maundrell 
judiciously observes, (r) u Near about Sidon begin the 
precincts of the Holy Land, and of that part of it in par¬ 
ticular which was allotted to Asher.” Phoenice is thus 
proved to have constituted a portion of the Holy Land ; 
and that Palestine did not include Phoenice is decidedly 
manifest from a passage in Herodotus, (s) wherein Phoe» 
nice, Palestine, and the Island of Cyprus, are separately 
enumerated. Cluverius, defining the boundaries of Pales¬ 
tine, begins by marking a line of separation between that 
country and Phoenice.(£) 
(o) Bishop Pocoke, in his description of the Ea*t, considers the two expressions 
as synonymous. See vol. II. part 1 . ch. 1. London , 1745. 
( P) BupHci ratione nomen Terra Sancla huic regiord tribuUur , aliter a Judais , aliter 
a Christianis." Keland De Nomine Terrae Sancta. Vide Thesaur. Antic. UgoL v&h 
VI. cap, 4. Hadriani Relandi Palaestina , Vtn. 1746. 
( q ) Joshua, xix. 24 to 31. 
(r) Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 45 Oxford , 17 21. 
{s ) Thalia, cap. 91. Reland has cited a passage from a most ancient Hebrew corn, 
mentary upon Genesis, wherein a similar distinction is, as decisively, marked : “ JSt 
crat fames in omnibus terris, sc. in tribus terris, Phoenicia (Ua jam turn scnbebant , bar* 
baripro Phamce.) Arabia, et Palaestina.” Relandi Palaestina, cap. 7. in Thesaur. 
Antiq. Sacrar. tom. VI. 33, 34. Venet. 1746. 
(f) Palaestina clauditer a Septentrione Phoenice. Cluver. Geog. lib, 5 c. 20, p, 588, 
Amst. 1729. 
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