Sesarea Filippi
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Caesarea Filippi, 'n stad aan die pragtige voet van die Hermonberg naby die bronne van die Jordaan. Ons het slegs melding daarvan in die eerste twee Evangelies [Matt 16:13 -18; Mark 8:27 ] tydens Petrus se messiaanse belydenis. Augustus het hierdie stad in 20 v.C. aan Herodes die Grote oorhandig. Hy het 'n marmer tempel hier naby die kultusplek van die Romeinse god Pan gebou en die stad Paneas genoem. Die tetrarg *Filippus het die stad uitgebrei en dit Caesarea Filippi hernoem ter ere van Keiser Tiberius en sy eie eer. Agrippa II het die stad verder ontwikkel en dit Neronias genoem ter ere van Keiser Nero. Tydens die Joodse Oorlog het Titus gladiatoriale spele hier georganiseer, waarin gevange Jode teen wilde diere en mekaar moes veg. Op die ruïnes van die voormalige stad staan nou die dorpie Banias [Panias = heiligdom van die god Pan] met die oorblyfsels van 'n kranskasteel.
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Caesara Philippi
a city on the northeast of the marshy plain of el-Huleh, 120 miles north of Jerusalem, and 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, at the "upper source" of the Jordan, and near the base of Mount Hermon. It is mentioned in (Matt 16:13 ) and (Mark 8:27 ) as the northern limit of our Lord's public ministry. According to some its original name was Baal-Gad (Josh 11:17), or Baal-Hermon (Judg 3:3; 1Chr 5:23), when it was a Canaanite sanctuary of Baal. It was afterwards called Panium or Paneas, from a deep cavern full of water near the town. This name was given to the cavern by the Greeks of the Macedonian kingdom of Antioch because of its likeness to the grottos of Greece, which were always associated with the worship of their god Pan. Its modern name is Banias. Here Herod built a temple, which he dedicated to Augustus Caesar. This town was afterwards enlarged and embellished by Herod Philip, the tetrarch of Trachonitis, of whose territory it formed a part, and was called by him Caesarea Philippi, partly after his own name, and partly after that of the emperor Tiberius Caesar. It is thus distinguished from the Caesarea of Palestine. (See JORDAN)
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