1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Matthew 27:33

*And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the place of Calvary.

Mark 15:22.; Luke 23:33.; John 19:17.

Golgotha, that is the place of Calvary,{ Ver. 33. Calvariae locus. kraniou topos.|} of heads and skulls: perhaps, says St. Jerome, from the skulls of persons executed, and buried there. Several ancient writers would have it so called, from Adam's skull, whom they guess to have been buried there. Some also say that a part of this mountain was called Moria, the place where Abraham was ready to have sacrificed his son Isaac. (Witham) --- Isaac, carrying the wood on his shoulders for the sacrifice, was a figure of Jesus Christ carrying his cross. The mountain was situated to the north-west of Jerusalem.