during the captivity the great body of the inhabitants. After the return, the Jewish colonists gradually extended their settlements again, even in the north; so that in our Lord’s time Galilee still professed the faith of Israel, although surrounded by foreign countries. But the population was a very mixed one, consisting, besides Jews, of Phœnicians, Syrians, Greeks, and Arabians; and the Galilean Jews were despised by those of Judæa, because they lived at a distance from the temple, and from the
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