Verse 11
11. Street… called Straight So called from its cutting the city in two in a straight line. It is two miles in length from east to west, lined with colonnades, and now called the “Street of Bazaars.” It has a spot pointed out by officious tradition as the very house of this Ananias.
“We visited the great cathedral,” says Mr. Tristam, “in the street which is called ‘Straight,’ and several of the mosques. The great mosque, once the Christian cathedral, and in yet earlier ages a heathen temple, is a noble structure, though, of course, without the interest or the splendour of the Mosque of Omar. We looked in at one magnificent portal, over which still remains engraven the inscription in Greek, ‘Thy kingdom, O Christ! is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.’ There stand the words, unread by the Moslem. We will take them as a silent prophecy that the day is coming when this dark land shall be Christ’s once more, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
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