* two.
18 Mr 16:12,13
* Emmaus.
Emmaus was situated, according to the testimony both of Luke
and Josephus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, that is, about
seven miles and a half. It has generally been confounded with
Emmaus, a city of Judah, afterwards called Nicopolis; but
Reland has satisfactorily shown that they were distinct
places; the latter, according to the old Itinerary of
Palestine, being situated 10; miles from Lydda, and 22; miles
from Jerusalem. D'Arvieux states, that going from Jerusalem
to Rama, he took the right from the high road to Rama, at some
little distance from Jerusalem, and "travelled a good league
over rocks and flint stones, to the end of the valley of
terebinthine trees," until he reached Emmaus; which "seems, by
the ruins which surround it, to have been formerly larger that
it was in our Saviour's time. The Christians, while masters
of the Holy Land, re-established it a little, and built
several churches. Emmaus was not worth the trouble of having
come out of the way to see it."
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