We have thus traversed the long ages during which Jerusalem has been, for four thousand years, a holy city. It can never be anything else. Whatever be the outcome of the regeneration of the Turkish empire, Jerusalem can never be a very great centre of trade. It will remain what it has been for so many centuries--the Holy City. To the Jew it is the city of David and Solomon, to the Christian the city where our Lord was crucified, to the Moslem also a city sanctified by many traditions, and by the memory of the proud days when it was won for Islâm by Omar and by Saladin. Perhaps, in the distant future, we may learn more of the ancient remains now hidden under the platform of the Ḥaram, or of those beneath the houses of the present town; in these pages all that has been so far discovered of importance has, in the author’s belief, been described, and the very sanctity of the place makes it as yet impossible to explore some of its most interesting remains. But the Holy City may still be described in the words of the Psalmist: “Jerusalem is builded as a city of gathering together to itself; for thither the tribes go up” (Psalm cxxii. 3). FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER XIV [548] Schultens’s edition, 1735, in Arabic and Latin, was used by me in annotating the English translation for Pal. Pil. Texts Society in 1897. [549] Shirkoh died early in Jan., 1169; El ’Adid, Sept. 13, 1171; and Nûr-ed-Dîn on May 15, 1174. [550] See “Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem,” pp. 146–60. [551] Quoted in Besant and Palmer’s “Jerusalem,” 1871, p. 356. [552] The Christian account makes it about 4¼ bezants (30 shillings) and the Moslem account 10 dinars (70 shillings) for a man. They agree that two women or ten children paid the same as one man. Perhaps the 30 shillings was the ransom for a poor man, and 70 shillings for the rich. [553] De Vogüé, “Temple de Jerusalem,” p. 101. [554] _Ibid._, pp. 91, 92. [555] The seventh month of the Moslem lunar year, answering to October about this time. [556] Guy le Strange, “Palestine under the Moslems,” p. 484. [557] “Regesta,” Nos. 681, 685, 688; Beha-ed-Dîn, II. lxxi. pp. 185–9, English translation. [558] The second Crusade was an armed pilgrimage of King Louis VII. of France in 1147 A. D., with a futile attack on Damascus (“Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” pp. 108–12). [559] Perhaps 50,000 men. [560] English translation, 1897, pp. 12, 350. [561] Robinson, “Bib. Res.,” 1838, i. p. 317. [562] “Regesta,” Nos. 934, 940, 974. [563] _Ibid._, Nos. 997, 1010; “Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” p. 313; A. Socin (“Baedeker’s Guide,” 1876, p. 177). [564] “Regesta,” No. 1088. [565] Robinson, “Bib. Res.,” 1838, i. p. 317. [566] “Regesta,” Nos. 1094, 1095; “Makrizi,” see “Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” pp. 316–18. [567] Besant and Palmer, “Jer.,” 1871, p. 459. [568] “Regesta,” Nos. 1101, 1114, 1119. [569] “Regesta,” No. 1144. [570] “Latin Kingdom of Jer.,” pp. 390–400.