The custom was natural and proper; because people must kiss, and a man would not be likely to kiss one of the women of this country of his own free will and accord.

One must travel, to learn.

Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
We journeyed around the base of the mountain--"Little Hermon,"-- past the old Crusaders' castle of El Fuleh, and arrived at Shunem.

This was another Magdala, to a fraction, frescoes and all.

Here, tradition says, the prophet Samuel was born, and here the Shunamite woman built a little house upon the city wall for the accommodation of the prophet Elisha.
Elisha asked her what she expected in return.