General View of Pompeii--Near the So-Called River of Styx, Made Famous in Classic Poetry

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.4 x 17.7 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ruins of Pompeii with mountains in the background.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Hosea, x:8.)--'The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.' Some take the word Aven in the above verse to stand for Bamoth-Aven, which signifies the high places of iniquity. It is a significant fact that the high places the Israelites used for idolatrous worship are totally waste and desolate. But we notice the same laws that brought ruin and desolation to the Israelites for unholy sacrifices were at work among the heathen nations by which they were surrounded. Pompeii was founded, perhaps, in the same century in which this prophecy was written, and no city at the time of its destruction was more given up to a refined idolatry than this. The thorn and the thistle now grow upon their altars."; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good/fair; some fading

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)