the brow of the hill whereon their city was built The - whereon" refers to the hill not to the brow. Nazareth nestles under the southern slopes of the hill. The cliff down which they wished to hurl Him (because this was regarded as a form of -stoning," the legal punishment for blasphemy) was certainly not the so-called -Mount of Precipitation" which is two miles distant, and therefore more than a sabbath day's journey, but one of the rocky escarpments of the hill, and possibly that above the Maronite Church, which is about 40 feet high. This form of punishment is only mentioned in 2 Chronicles 25:12; but in Phocis it was the punishment for sacrilege. (Philo.)

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