All men did
marvel.
The Decapolis
The Decapolis ("Ten
Cities"; Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the
eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Jordan and Syria. The ten cities were
not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together
because of their language, culture, location, and political status, with each
possessing a certain degree of autonomy and self-rule. The Decapolis cities
were centers of Greek and Roman culture in a region that was otherwise Semitic
(Nabatean, Aramean, and Judean). With the exception of Damascus, Hippos and
Scythopolis, the "Region of the Decapolis" was located in modern-day
Jordan.
The Roman and Byzantine
Decapolis region was influenced and gradually taken over by Christianity. Some
cities were more receptive than others to the new religion. Pella was a base
for some of the earliest church leaders (Eusebius reports that theapostles fled
there to escape the Great Jewish Revolt). In other cities, paganism persisted
long into the Byzantine era. Eventually, however, the region became almost entirely
Christian, and most of the cities served as seats of bishops.
Most of the cities
continued into the late Roman and Byzantine periods. Some were abandoned in the
years following Palestine's conquest by the Umayyad Caliphate in 641, but other
cities continued to be inhabited long into the Islamic period.
Wikipedia
pub-lish
(publish)v. pub-lished, pub-lish-ing,
pub-lish-es.v. tr. 1. To prepare and
issue (printed material) for public distribution
or sale. 2. To bring to the public
attention; announce. See Synonyms at announce.v. intr. 1. To issue a
publication. 2. To be the writer or
author of published works or a work.
American
Heritage Talking Dictionary
How
forcible are right
words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Do ye imagine
to
reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as
wind? Yea,
ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Now therefore
be content, look upon me;
for it is evident
unto you if I lie.
*
How
is the faithful city - become an harlot!
it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Thy
silver is become dross,
thy wine mixed with water:
Thy
princes are rebellious,
and companions of thieves: every
one loveth
gifts, and followeth after
rewards:
they
judge
not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them.
Therefore
saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One
of
Israel, Ah,
I will ease me of mine adversaries,
and avenge me of mine
enemies:
**
And
Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war
which went to the battle, This
is
the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
Only
the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
and the lead,
Every
thing that may abide
the fire,
ye shall make it go through the fire,
and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water
of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
**
And
I will turn my hand upon thee,
and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
And
I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
- afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness,
the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
And
the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
For
they
shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for
the gardens that ye have chosen.
For
ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
*****
And
he departed,
and began to publish in Decapolis - how great
things RAheme
had done for him: and all
men
did marvel.
ISamuelyeaon-Amallah-Ohpia
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