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xvi, 18, and Gough’s Ant. Brit., p. 62). Bethlehem. Hebrew: “house of bread.” One town so named was in Lower Galilee (now Beit-Lahm); but Bethlehem of Judah (Beit-Lalm) is five miles S. of Jerusalem, and contains the famous cave of the ‘“‘manger,” under the apse of the first Christian church in the world, built by Const an tine 830 a.c. The pillars of his basilica still remain in the building restored in the 13th century. 313