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CAESAREA PHILIPPI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 944 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIPPI , the name of a See also:town 95 m. N. of See also:Jerusalem, 35 M. S.W. from See also:Damascus, 115o ft. above the See also:sea, on the See also:south See also:base of See also:Hermon, and at an important source of the See also:Jordan. It does not certainly appear in the Old Testament See also:history, though identifications with See also:Baal-See also:Gad and (less certainly) with Laish (See also:Dan) have been proposed. It was certainly a See also:place of See also:great sanctity from very See also:early times, and when See also:foreign religious influences intruded upon See also:Palestine, the cult of its See also:local numen gave place to the See also:worship of See also:Pan, to whom was dedicated the See also:cave in which the copious See also:spring feeding the Jordan arises. It was See also:long known as Panium or Panias, a name that has survived in the See also:modern Bdnids. When See also:Herod the Great received the territory from See also:Augustus, 20 B.C., he erected here a See also:temple in See also:honour of his See also:patron; but the re-See also:foundation of the town is due to his son, See also:Philip the See also:Tetrarch, who here erected a See also:city which he named Caesarea in honour of Tiberius, adding Philippi to immortalize his own name and to distinguish his city from the similarly-named city founded by his See also:father on the sea-See also:coast. Here See also:Christ gave His See also:charge to See also:Peter (Matt. xvi. 13). Many See also:Greek See also:inscriptions have been found here, some referring to the See also:shrine. See also:Agrippa II. changed the name to Neronias, but this name endured but a See also:short while. See also:Titus here exhibited gladiatorial shows to celebrate the See also:capture of Jerusalem.

The Crusaders took the city in 1130, and lost it to the Moslems in 1165. Banias is a poor See also:

village inhabited by about 350 Moslems; all See also:round it are gardens of See also:fruit-trees. It is well watered and fertile. There are not many remains of the See also:Roman city above ground. The Crusaders' See also:castle of Subeibeh, one of the finest in Palestine, occupies the See also:summit of a conical See also:hill above the village. (R. A. S.

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