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See also:CAPERNAUM (Kairepvaovµ; probably, " the See also:village of See also:Nahum ") , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Galilee. More than any other See also:place, it was the See also:home of Jesus after he began his See also:mission; there he preached, called several of his disciples, and did many See also:works, but without See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with much response from the inhabitants, over whom he pronounced the heavy denunciation:—" And See also:thou, Capernaum, which See also:art exalted unto See also:heaven, shalt be brought down to See also:hell." The site of the city has been a See also:matter of much dispute,—one party, headed by Dr E. See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson, maintaining an See also:identification with See also:Khan Minyeh at the See also:north-See also:west corner of the See also:Sea of Galilee, and another, represented especially by See also:Sir C. W. See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, supporting the claims of Tell Hum, midway between Khan Minyeh and the mouth of the See also:Jordan. Khan Minyeh is beautifully situated in a " fertile See also:plain formed by the See also:retreat of the mountains about the See also:middle of the western See also:shore " of the Sea of Galilee. Its ruins are not very extensive, though they may have been despoiled for See also:building the See also:great Saracenic Khan from which they take their name. In the neighbourhood is a See also:water-source, See also:Ain et-Tabighah, an Arabic corruption of Heptapegon or Seven Springs (referred to by See also:Josephus as being near Capernaum). Tell Hum lies about 3 M. north of Khan Minyeh, and its ruins, covering an See also:area of " See also:half a mile See also:long by a See also:quarter wide," prove it to have been the site of no small See also:town. It must be admitted that if it be not Capernaum it is impossible to say what ancient place it represents. But it is doubtful whether Tell Hum can be considered as a corruption of Kefr Nahum, the Semitic name which the See also:Greek represents: and there is not here, as at Khan Minyeh, any See also:spring that can be equated to the Heptapegon of Josephus. On the whole the probabilities of the two sites seem to See also:balance, and it is practically impossible without further discoveries to decide between them. The sites of the neighbouring cities of Bethsaida and Chorazin are probably to be sought respectively at El-Bateiha, a grassy plain in the north-See also:east corner of the See also:lake, and at Kerazeh, 2 M. north of Tell Hum. According to the so-called Pseudo-See also:Methodius there was a tradition251
that See also:Antichrist would be See also:born at Chotazin, educated at Bethsaida and See also:rule at Capernaum—hence the curse of Jesus upon these cities.
On the site of Capernaum see especially W. Sanday in See also:Journal of Theological Studies, vol. IT. p. 42. (R. A. S.
End of Article: CAPERNAUM (Kairepvaovµ; probably, " the village of Nahum ")
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