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Tacitus (Hist., ii, 78) relates that there was a sanctuary there with altar but without image; Suetonius in his life of Vespasian (Ch. 5) records how he sacrificed there, and was given by the priests an oracle of his coming greatness; Elijah appears to have daringly chosen Pagan ground for his defiance of Ahab and the Baal. The mountain gives a dramatic setting for the appearance of a little cloud the size of a man’s palm coming up out of the sea’ (vv. 42ff.). 20. The convocation of all [om. with
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