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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55132" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55132" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἀντίπατρις) </p> <p> Antipatris, a [[Hellenistic]] town of Palestine, stood at the eastern edge of the Plain of Sharon, where the military road from [[Jerusalem]] to [[Caesarea]] left the hills. Under the protection of a body of Roman cavalry and infantry, St. Paul was brought thither by night, and thence, with a diminished escort, to Caesarea ( Acts 23:31-32). [[Antipatris]] was a border town between [[Judaea]] and [[Samaria]] (Neubauer, <i> Géogr. du Talm. </i> , 1868, p. 80f.), and after it was reached there would be less danger of a [[Jewish]] attack. [[Josephus]] ( <i> Ant </i> . xvi. v. 2) gives an account of its foundation: </p> <p> ‘Herod erected another city in the plain called Kapharsaba, where he [[Chose]] out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness or soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the beet trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater.’ </p> <p> The historian elsewhere identifies it with <i> Kapharsaba </i> ( <i> Ant </i> . xiii. xv. 1), and Robinson ( <i> Biblical Researches </i> , iv. 139f.), followed by Schürer (ii. i. 130f.), naturally concludes that the site must be the modern <i> Kefr Sâbâ </i> ; but, as the latter place cannot be described as well-watered, Conder, Warren, | <p> (Ἀντίπατρις) </p> <p> Antipatris, a [[Hellenistic]] town of Palestine, stood at the eastern edge of the Plain of Sharon, where the military road from [[Jerusalem]] to [[Caesarea]] left the hills. Under the protection of a body of Roman cavalry and infantry, St. Paul was brought thither by night, and thence, with a diminished escort, to Caesarea ( Acts 23:31-32). [[Antipatris]] was a border town between [[Judaea]] and [[Samaria]] (Neubauer, <i> Géogr. du Talm. </i> , 1868, p. 80f.), and after it was reached there would be less danger of a [[Jewish]] attack. [[Josephus]] ( <i> Ant </i> . xvi. v. 2) gives an account of its foundation: </p> <p> ‘Herod erected another city in the plain called Kapharsaba, where he [[Chose]] out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness or soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the beet trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater.’ </p> <p> The historian elsewhere identifies it with <i> Kapharsaba </i> ( <i> Ant </i> . xiii. xv. 1), and Robinson ( <i> Biblical Researches </i> , iv. 139f.), followed by Schürer (ii. i. 130f.), naturally concludes that the site must be the modern <i> Kefr Sâbâ </i> ; but, as the latter place cannot be described as well-watered, Conder, Warren, G. A. Smith, and [[Buhl]] all favour <i> Rasel-‘Ain </i> , a little farther south, at the source of the Aujah. </p> <p> James Strahan. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34408" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34408" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49387" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49387" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> ANTIPATRIS </strong> . [[Hither]] St. Paul was conducted by night on the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea ( Acts 23:31 ). It was founded by Herod the Great, and probably stood at the head of the river <em> ‘Aujeh </em> (now <em> Râs el-‘Ain </em> ). Here are the remains of a large castle of the Crusaders, probably to be identified with <em> Mirabel </em> . </p> <p> | <p> <strong> ANTIPATRIS </strong> . [[Hither]] St. Paul was conducted by night on the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea ( Acts 23:31 ). It was founded by Herod the Great, and probably stood at the head of the river <em> ‘Aujeh </em> (now <em> Râs el-‘Ain </em> ). Here are the remains of a large castle of the Crusaders, probably to be identified with <em> Mirabel </em> . </p> <p> R. A. S. Macalister. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15309" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15309" /> == | ||
