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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
resistance, and cost the Romans a fierce and bloody struggle before they could be overcome.
That is a bloody sea-fight in which from four to five thousand are slaughtered on one side
alone, as was the case here, and not a " sharp skirmish," as one writer has termed this event.
As all who took part could hardly have been killed, the number of Jews that actually
perished is a hint at least that the number of ships on the side of the Tarichseans was very
large, while the Romans who pursued them were likewise in ships.
The difference between ships and the small boats which are attached to them seems
to be clearly brought out in the Greek of John xxi. 3, 6, 8. Likewise the phrase in Josephus
("Wars," iii. 10, 5), "climbing up into their ships," is a significant hint as to the size of some
of their vessels.
From a passage in Josephus (" Wars," iii. 10, 6), we infer that ship-building was one of
the important industries of Tarichsea. And, " when we add to the fishermen the crowd of
ship-builders, the many boats of traffic, pleasure, and passage, we see that the whole basin
must have been a focus of life and energy, the surface of the lake constantly dotted with
the white sails of vessels flying before the mountain-gusts, as the beach sparkled with the
houses and palaces, the synagogues and the temples, of the Jewish or Roman inhabitants"
(Stanley, " Sinai and Palestine," p. 367).
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
resistance, and cost the Romans a fierce and bloody struggle before they could be overcome.
That is a bloody sea-fight in which from four to five thousand are slaughtered on one side
alone, as was the case here, and not a " sharp skirmish," as one writer has termed this event.
As all who took part could hardly have been killed, the number of Jews that actually
perished is a hint at least that the number of ships on the side of the Tarichseans was very
large, while the Romans who pursued them were likewise in ships.
The difference between ships and the small boats which are attached to them seems
to be clearly brought out in the Greek of John xxi. 3, 6, 8. Likewise the phrase in Josephus
("Wars," iii. 10, 5), "climbing up into their ships," is a significant hint as to the size of some
of their vessels.
From a passage in Josephus (" Wars," iii. 10, 6), we infer that ship-building was one of
the important industries of Tarichsea. And, " when we add to the fishermen the crowd of
ship-builders, the many boats of traffic, pleasure, and passage, we see that the whole basin
must have been a focus of life and energy, the surface of the lake constantly dotted with
the white sails of vessels flying before the mountain-gusts, as the beach sparkled with the
houses and palaces, the synagogues and the temples, of the Jewish or Roman inhabitants"
(Stanley, " Sinai and Palestine," p. 367).