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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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(Erub. 99 a, line 11 from bottom). <strong>The</strong> dictvm is<br />

supported by an alteration in <strong>the</strong> reading <strong>of</strong> Prov.<br />

viii. 36 I<br />

' Galilee covered <strong>the</strong> ancient possessions <strong>of</strong><br />

Issachar, Zebulun, Naphtali, <strong>and</strong> Asher. * In <strong>the</strong><br />

time <strong>of</strong> Christ it stretched northwards to <strong>the</strong><br />

possessions <strong>of</strong> Tyre on <strong>the</strong> one side, <strong>and</strong> to Syria<br />

on <strong>the</strong> oibtr.<br />

On <strong>the</strong> south it was bounded by SaiAaili —Mount<br />

Carmel on <strong>the</strong> Western, tod tbb district <strong>of</strong><br />

Scythopolis on <strong>the</strong> eastern side, being here<br />

l<strong>and</strong>hiatks; ivliile <strong>the</strong> Jordan <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lake <strong>of</strong><br />

QenndBaret formed <strong>the</strong> general eastern boundazyline.*<br />

(Sketches <strong>of</strong> Jewish Soc. <strong>Life</strong>, p. SS.) It was<br />

divided into Upper <strong>and</strong> Lower Galilee —<strong>the</strong><br />

former beginning * where sycomores {not ova<br />

sycamoiM} cenie to grow.* Fishing in <strong>the</strong> Lake <strong>of</strong><br />

Galilee was free to all (Baba K. 81 b).<br />

HELIGIOUS TBAOHING IN GALILEE.

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