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ANTIPATRIS

Volume 2 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

(Acts xxiii. 31.), a town of Palestine, anciently called Caphtor Saba, according to Josephus, but named Antipatris by Herod the Great, in honour of his father Antipater. It was situated in a pleasant valley near the mountains, in the way from Jerusalem to Caesarea. Josephus places it at about the distance of nineteen miles from Joppa.