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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of the Middle East southeast of the Sea of Galilee. One of the Greek cities of the Decapolis, it is described in the Bible as the place where Jesus cast demons out of a man and into a herd of swine, which then threw themselves into the sea.
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For example, there was unquestionably a place called Gadara on the eastern shore of the
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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The objects for which he strove were comparatively petty: possession of the cities of Ptolemais and Gaza and of certain east-Jordan cities, such as Gadara and Amathus.
The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Charles Foster Kent 1896
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Vespasian marched against "Gadara," which he calls the metropolis of
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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[109] I may call attention, in passing, to the fact that this authority, at any rate, has no sort of doubt of the fact that Jewish Law did not rule in Gadara (indeed, under the head of "Gadara," in the same work, it is expressly stated that the population of the place consisted "predominantly of heathens"), and that he scouts the notion that the Gadarene swineherds were
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"Gadara," was minded to finish with Jotapata, a strong place about fourteen miles south-east of Ptolemais, into which Josephus, who at first had fled to Tiberias, eventually threw himself -- Vespasian arriving before Jotapata "the very next day."
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Jesus told the demoniac from Gadara: “Go home and tell what great things God has done for you.”
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Go down a steep place in Gadara and drown yourselves.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Go down a steep place in Gadara and drown yourselves.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Many persons who would listen to a grave attack on the consistency, reasonableness, and elevation of the currently ascribed attributes of the Godhead, with something of the respect due to the profound solemnity of the subject, would turn with deaf and implacable resentment upon one who should make merry over the swine of Gadara.
Voltaire 2007
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The chapter on Hammat Gader, an ancient thermal resort linked to the city Gadara, is quite brief, but it is a site I was unfamiliar with, so its inclusion was welcome.
Judea and Palestine 2005
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