Section 24

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24. Hence they turned aside to that sycamore which

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is

now

called

Matarea

,

and

the

Lord

Jesus

brought

forth

in

Matarea

a

fountain

in

which

the

Lady

Mary

washed

His

shirt

.

And

from

the

sweat

of

the

Lord

Jesus

which

she

sprinkled

there

,

balsam

was

produced

in

that

region

.

Notes

15
Matarea, or Matariyeh, the site of Heliopolis or On, is a little way to the N.E. of Cairo. Ismail Pasha is said to have presented, on his visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the tree and the ground surrounding it to the Empress of the French. For some interesting particulars about the tree, see a paragraph, by B.H.C. (i.e., Mr. B. Harris Cowper, who has translated the Apocryphal Gospels), in the Leisure Hour for 2d November, 1867.