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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872-01-01 Excerpt:... well said, "belongs not to the (.lid I dispensation, but to the New. Its very barrenness of interest in earlier times sets forth the abundance of those associations which it derives from the closing scenes of the sacred history. Nothing, jierhaps, brings before us more strikingly the contrast of Jewish and Christian feeling, the abrupt and inharmonious termination of the Jewish dispensation--if we exclude the culminating point of the Gosjiel history--than to contrast the blank which Olivet presents to the Jewish pilgrims of the Middle Aces only dignified by the sacrifice of 'the red heifer;'and the vision too great for words, which it oners to the Christian traveller of all times, as the most detailed and the most authentic abid ing place of Jesus Christ. By one of those strange fcrent. hold of Philologus. It is stated by Pseudo-Hippolji tus that he was one of the seventy disciples, aim underwent martyrdom at Home: and Karonius ventures to give A. i. 6!) as the date of his death. w. T. a OLYMTIUS COki/imV Olympius). One of the chief epithets of the Greek deity Zeus, so called from Mount Olympus in Thessaly, the abode of the gods (-2 Mace. vi. 2). See Jupiter, vol. ii. p. 15186. OMAE'RUS Vlfffiaripos; Vat. Ma-npos; Aid. 'Icafidypos-Abramm). Am Ham of the sons of Hani (1 lisdr. ix. 34; comp. Ezr. x. 34). The Syriac seems to have read "lshmael." OMAR ("N perh. eloquent, fluent'. 'ftuip: Alex. Clfxav in Gen. xxxvi. 11: Omar). Son of l.ltphaz the first-born of Esau, and ilduke" or phylarch of Worn ((Jen. xxxvi. 11. 16; 1 Chr. i. 30). The name is supposed to survive in that of the tribe oY Amir Arabs east of the Jordan. Itunsen asserts that Omar was the ancestor of the fine Hammer In nort hern Kdom Btbelwerk, Gen. xxxvi. 11), but t...