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thewn stones often weigh five tons or more, facing rough walls which are connected by cro walls, at irregular intervals, making small chambers, roofed with flat slabs. There are no visible means of acce to these, but they often contain human bones, The statues stand on slabs of hewn stone, and show no connection with the chambers, but are spaced equally along the front of the platform. Eben. Hebrew: “stone,” see Aben, Ebionites. Hebrew: Ebidn “ needy”: or otherwise “ wishing ” (i.e. men of “good will”), a sect of our 1st century described by Eusebius (Hecles, Hist. iii, 27: vi, 17): called “poor,” he says, “because cherishing low and mean opinions of Christ.” They were only described by their enemies till the discovery of their own manual (see Didaché). 31