ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE: SUGGESTED BY A TOUR THROUGH THE HOLY LAND. BY REV. HORATIO B. HACKETT, PROFESSOR IN NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. T. NELSON AND SONS, LONDON; EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. MDCCCLVI. 203. d. 230. PREFACE. THE writer has been induced to prepare this volume in the hope that it may be useful to general readers of the Bible. The journey in Egypt and Palestine, out of which it has grown, was performed in the spring and summer of 1852, and the greater part of the contents were written out for the press more than a year ago, but unavoidable circumstances have delayed the publication until the present time. The work does not claim to be a book of travels, and would be misjudged if viewed in that light. The object has been, not to present a connected view of the geography of Palestine, or to detail at any length the personal incidents which travellers usually make so prominent in their journals; but, out of the mass of observations and facts which fell under my notice, to select those which seemed to be capable of being used with some advantage for the purpose of promoting a more earnest and intelligent study of the Sacred Volume. The object, in other words, has been to make this account of the journey to the reader as nearly as possible what the journey itself was to the writer in the prosecution of it,—a means of illustrating the Scriptures, throwing light upon obscure passages, bringing vividly before the mind the scenes of sacred history, tracing out the proofs of the accuracy of the Bible in its allusions, customs, narratives, geographical notices, and, in general, putting us more exactly in the situation of the inspired writers, and thus enabling us the better to understand and appreciate their spirit and meaning. The contents of the two last chapters are mainly topogra |