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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Emmaus
Britannica 11thEMMAUS, the name of two places in Palestine. 1. A village mentioned by Luke (xxiv. 13), without any indication of direction, as being 60 stadia (almost 7 m.) , or according to some MSS.1 160 stadia, from Jerusalem. Its identification is a matter of mere guessw ...
Vol. 9, pp. 342-342
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Emmanuel Philibert
Britannica 11th... ettled in a similar way in 1569; but the Genevans refused to recognize Savoyard EMMAUS— EMMET suzerainty. Emmanuel reformed the currency, reorganized justice, prepared the way for the emancipation of the serfs, raised the standing army to 25,000 men, and forti ...
Vol. 9, pp. 341-342
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Emmendingen
Britannica 11th... 60) is evidently an attempt to harmonize with the traditional identification of Emmaus-Nicopolis held by Eusebius and Jerome. For a curious reading in three old Latin MSS. which makes Emmaus the name of the second traveller on the journey, see Expos. Times, xi ...
Vol. 9, pp. 342-342
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Uhde
Britannica 11th... ublic collections are: " Saying Grace," at the Luxembourg in Paris; " Christ at Emmaus/' at the Staedel Institute, Frankfort; " The Farewell of Tobias," at the Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; and a portrait oi the actor Wohlmuth, at the Christiania Museum. Von ...
Vol. 27, pp. 563-563
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