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Eastern Door inscribed with Paiieages from the Koran.
DOORS OF THE CHURCH. To insure secrecy in worship, the ancient Christians constructed the doors of their churches with peculiar care. The early fa- thers, fixim this usage, derived abundant metaphors, relating to admission to the church, to heaven, etc There were generally three principal entrances, in im-
itation of the Jewish Temple. Sometbaea ^bt tsal xvkriy porta, and BvpOyjomuL, were interefaangei: \$\ for the most part, the principal entrance, aft tbe v«. | over against tiie altar, was ciJled, by way of eaoa irvXii, and icvKti ^tpaiuj or ^omAuciy. Men aad v en entered by different doors. The dooi wot t structed of the most durable wood, or of facaaa n^ ornamented. The date of the building or de£aia of the church was usually inscribed on the deai Sometimes the doors bore inscriptions of TazwusbnU of which the following may be taken aa a sped On the outside,
^* Pax iibi sit, qoicanque Dei penetralia CbaML Pectore padfloo Candidas ingredsia.**
On the inside,
** Qulsquis ab ede Dei, perieetb orfine rt^ Egrederfe, remea oorpore, eordr mane.**
It was customary, in early timea, to place on tihe ^eoi the names of all excommunicated persons ; it a ice period, the names of persons intending marri^ ta posted up in like manner. This was also the place it affixing all proclamations and dedaxHis of tiMCksm, as well as all public notices. — Riddle, CirUlimlm^ uitiesy bk. vi, ch. v, § 6 ; Coleman, Christum Amtifn^m, ch. ix, § 10.
Doph'kah (Heb. Dopiiak^ n^&n, Mee€P&^9 Gesenius, a htockutg; accord, to Fiirrt, cat:Q»4imf: Sept. 'Pa^aca, by error of *i for 1 ; Vulg. Ikf^\ the eighth place of encampment of the Isaafites a coming out of Egypt (Num. xxxiii, 12). It in« »» ated in the desert of Sin, on the eastern shon «f tbt western arm of the Red Sea, probably at the tumA of Wady Feiran. See Exode. Pococke (£a< v Si thinks it lies east of Thor, in Wady Hibran; bat thb is apparently conjecture. Fllrst {ffeb. Haadr. l t.\ after Seetzen (Zach's Correspond, xxvii, 71), cap it b the modem el-Tobbacka; by which they appmitj mean the eUTubuhak mentioned by Dr. BobiiBoa k lying in a very different region {Ret, ii, 88S, 648), cA probably identical with the Tagoba (q. v.) of oih Church writers.
Dor (Heb. id., "ni^T, a dtoelBmg, bnt "^X? m J<^ xvii, 11 ; 1 Kings iv, 11 ; Sept. i^wp, hot joiitf v^ preceding word TfiS or r'!B3, In Joeh. xi, 2 NfftrVtif. in Josh, xii, 22 [second clause] Na^dri^p, in 1 Kiap iv, 11 Ne^a^iup; Vulg. Dor; the Dora, ra li^d the Apocrypha and Josephns, who, as weD as Gn^ writers, also calls it Donag, A^ipoc), an aodcnt miA city of the Canaanites (Josh, xii, 23), wiioee nkr as an ally of Jabin, king of Hazor, sigainet jQsh«a(Jo6i xi, 1, 2). It was probably the most soathcn Mtti»> ment of the Phoenicians (Scylax, p. 42, ascribe it te the Sidonians) on the coast of Syria (Joseph. L^t p. S; ArU. xv, 9, 6). Josephus describes it as a mntiBe city (fTor, i, 21, 5) on the weat border of MiaaKl and the north border of Dan (^iiA v, 1, 22; vfii, 2, S: War, i, 7, 7\ near Mount Cannel {Ap ii, 10). 0» old author tells us that it was founded hy Doni, i son of Neptune, while another affirms that it wubailt by the Phoenicians, because the neigfaboriBg rockr shore abounded in the small shell-fish from wfakhtfacy got the purple dye (Reland, PalatL p. 739). It ap- pears to have been within the territory of the tribt d Asher, though allotted to Manasseh (JosLzriull; Judg. i, 27). The original inhabitants were nenr ex- pelled, but during the prosperous reigns of Darid ni Solomon they were made tributary (Jodg. i, 27, ^V and the latter monarch stationed at Dor one cf his twelve purveyors (1 Kings iv, 11). Beland {Pah^ p. 744) thinks it is the Dura (Aovpa) meatioaed br Poly bins (v, 409) as the scene of the victorj of Antk^ chus Epiphanes over Ptolemy Philometor. TVrph* the mxirdeTer of Jonathan Maccaba^us and asarper of the throne of Syria, having sought an asyhnn io IVfr. the dty was besieged and captued by Aatiodio Si-
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(1 Mace xy, 11, 13, 25; Joseph. Ant, xiii, 7, 2; f I, 2y 2). It was granted the privilege of nomi- Qdependence by Pompey (Joseph. Ant. xiv, 4, 4 ; I if 7, 7^, and was rebuilt by Gabinius, the Roman ral, alon^ -with Samaria, Ashdod, and other cities destine ^Joseph. Ant. xiv, 6, 8), and it remained nportant place during the early years of the Ro-
rule in Syria. Its coins are nnmerous, bearing lej^end '' Sacred Dora'* (Yaillant, Nmn. Impp.). icame an episcopal city of the prorince of Po^os*-
Prinux^ bnt was already ruined and deserted in fourth century (Jerome, in Epitaph. Paula). Ao- ing to Ptolemy (r, 15, 5), it was situated hi long. 80% lat a2^ 40' ; according to the Peutinger Table, oiles flrom Ptolemais ; and according to Ensebius
Jerome (^Onomast. s. t. d(tfp rot) Na^o^, Doma- t), it lay on the coast, " in the ninth mile from area, on the way to Ptolemais.'* Just at the point Gated is the small Tillage of Taniura (or Tortura, ocke, ii, 84 ; Arvieux, ii, 11 : Gesenius tUnks, The- r. p. 381, either form equal to the Arabic for hUl of ■a), consisting of about thirty houses, wholly con- icted of ancient materials, and inhabited by Mo^ nmedans (Mangles, Trav, p. 190 ; Schwarz, Paktt. 77, 91, 149 ; Thomson, Land and Bo(^ ii, 248). ree hundred yards north are low rocky mounds pro- ting into the sea, covered with heaps of rubbbh, Bsive foundations, and fhtgments of columns. The ist conspicuous ruin is a section of an old tower, 80 t or more in height, which forms the landmark of I town. On the south side of the promontory, op* lite the village, is a little harbor, partially sheltered