Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an runs through thelake, coloring its water for a mile. Thewater of the lake is slightly salty, butdrunk by the people. Fish abound,many species having been found. Tris-tram says : The shoals were marvellousblack masses of many hundred yardslong, with the black fins projecting outof the water as thickly as they couldpack. No wonder that any net shouldbreak which enclosed such a shoal !Yet though the lake swarms with fish as * GennesarPtTi, which is a form of the namealso given to the sea bv manv authors, is notfound in the A. V. of our English Bible.319 GAL GAL I could not have believed water couldswarm, there are but two boats existingon its whole extent besides a ferry-boat.(Land of Israel, p. 430.) Baedeker notesthree miserable fishing-boats. These areall that are left to remind the traveller ofthe numerous boats which our Savioursaw on the Sea of Galilee. Josephus de-scribes a naval engagement which tookplace on its waters between the Jews andthe soldiers of Vespasian. Violent and
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Sketch-Map of the Sea of Galilee. (Palestine Exploration Fund.) sudden storms are common now on thelake, as in our Lords day. Scripture History .—This lake is men-tioned in the 0. T. but seldom, and thenrather incidentally, as in Num. 34 • 11 •Deut. 3 : 17; Josh. 11 : 2; 12 : 3 ; 1 Kgs!15 : 20. Its chief interest is its associa-tion with the public ministry of our Sa-viour. Upon its shores was his own320 city, Matt. 9:1; from fishing-boatson Galilee he called Simon Peter andhis brother Andrew, and his partnersJames and John, who were thenceforth to catch men, Matt. 4 : 18, 22; Mark1 : 16-20; Luke 5 : 1-11; on it he stilledthe tempest and made the winds andthe sea obey him, Matt. 8 : 23-27; 14 :22-33 ; see also 17 : 27 ; Mark 7 : 31-35 Jat the Sea of Tiberias Christ also showedhimself to the disciples after his resur-rection. John 21. Ofthe nine or more popu-lous cities which stoodupon its shores, themore important wereBethsaida, Capernaum,Chorazin, Tiberias, andMagdala. Present

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