[419] Mr Tristram has since done this, but on foot, the rugged road being impassable in any other way.
[432] Bait Zacâri and Zecariah lie far away among the mountains in the south-west. Neither of them would command the road which Judas desired to intercept—neither of them therefore answers to the Bath Zacharias of the history any more than Baitzur near Hebron does to Bethsura—all are equally out of the question by reason of their distance.
[440] Very common in Oriental Christendom, and called by the Greeks the Σημάντρον (semantron.)
The ancient Britons used to summon the congregation to church service by means of “sacra ligna,” is it not likely that these were the same as the above, seeing that the Celtic nations were derived from the East?