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Excerpt from A New History of the Holy Bible, From the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity, Vol. 2: With Answers to Most of the Controverted Questions, Dissertations Upon the Most Remarkable Passages, and a Connection of Profane History All Along The city ofsichem, or Sechem, or Sychar, (for it had all thefe names), was at this time f0 called by Way of anticipation, for as yet it, was not founded), and is a town of Samaria, in the borders of Ephraim, which hands in a narrow valley, between Gera'zim on the fouth, and Ebal on the north, being built at the foot of the former. At prefent it is called Nap/o z, and confil'ts only of two reets, lying parallel under mount Gerazim, and is far from being in the ourilhing condition it Was once, though it is {till full of people, and the feat of a Baffa. The true name which was given it by Abram was Moreh, our tranflation renders the plain of Monh by St Jerom, the illu rioa: vale by the Jerulalem Targum, the valley of w on, beo canfo of God's appearing to Abraham here *and 'by others, the oak ofmoreh, or the il/aflrz'onr oah, he. Though it feems very probable, that there was in this place, not 'only one tingle tree, but awhole grove of them, and therefore it is called All/an, or Anion, being a corruption from Elan, in Latin Efialetwn, i. E. An oahen grave, or forell: of evergreen oaks: And lince this was the place Where Abraham, at his firlt coming into the country, built an altar, we have great reafon' to be of the fame opinion with the learned and fagacious Mr Mede, viz. That this Allow Moreh was a plae'e of divine worlhip, a fra neha, or open ora tory, in imitation of which the Jewifh profeneha (which were certain fpaces of ground, with' an altar in the'midfi, encompalled with a wall; or fome other-inclofure, and open above, but {haded With trees) in after ages were at up. Val. Wells's Geography of the New Te ament, vol. And Biblioth. Bib. Vol. I. Occaf. 'annot. Where the reader may meet with a particular enuo moration, upon how many accounts more this place was in for mer times very famous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."