ANTIPATRIS Avrtrarpis), a city built by Herod the Great, on the site of a former place called Caphar-saba (Xapapra(ei or Kai6apo-apa, Joseph. Antiq. xiii. 15, I). The spot was well watered, and fertile; a stream flowed round the city, and in its neighbourhood were groves of large trees (Antiq. xvi. 5, 2). Caphar-saba was Ito stadia from Joppa; and between the two places Alexander Balas drew a trench, with a wall and wooden towers, as a defence against the approach of Antiochus (Antiq. xiii. 15, 1 ; De Bell. 7ud. i. 4, 7). Antipatris also lay between Cmsarea and Lydia, its distance from the former place being twenty-six Roman miles (Ian. Hieros., p. 600). These circumstances indicate that Antipatris was in the midst of a plain, and not at Arsuf, where the Crusaders supposed they had found it (Will. Tyr. ix. 19; xiv. 16; Vitracus, c. 23 ; Brocard, c. JO; comp. Reland, ratost., pp. 569, 570). On the
road from Ramlah to Nazareth, north of Ras-el AM, Prokesch (Rene ins Heilige Land. Wien, 1831) came to a place called Kaffr Saba ; and the posi tion which Brighaus assigns to this town in his map is almost in exact agreement with the position assigned to Antipatris in the Pin. Hieros. Per ceiving this, Professor Raumer (Paldstina, pp. 144, happily conjectured that this Kaffr Saba was no other than the reproduced name of Caphar-saba, which, as in many other instances, has again sup planted the foreign, arbitrary, and later name of Antipatris. This conjecture has been confirmed by Robinson, who gives Kefr Saba as the name of the village in question (Researches, iii. 46-48). St. Paul was brought from Jerusalem to Antipatris by night, on his route to Cmsarea (Acts. xxiii.
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