He Proves that this Prophecy Harmonizes with Christ Alone, from ...
... [2247] And none of you can deny that Damascus was, and is, in the region of Arabia,
although now it belongs to what is called Syrophoenicia. ...
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Isaiah's Prophecies Considered the virginity of Christ's Mother a ...
... For the East generally regarded the magi as kings; and Damascus was anciently deemed
to belong to Arabia, before it was transferred to Syrophoenicia on the ...
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Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ.
... held the magi (to be) kings; and Damascus, on the other hand, used formerly to be
reckoned to Arabia before it was transferred into Syrophoenicia on the ...
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Is Phoenicia properly so called, but during the period when by conquest it was united to the kingdom of Syria, it prefixed to its old name Phoenicia, that of Syria. The Canaanitish woman is called a Syrophoenician, Mark 7:26, because she was of Phoenicia, then considered as part of Syria. Matthew, who is by some supposed to have written in Hebrew or Syriac, calls her a Canaanitish woman, Matthew 15:22, because that country was really people by Canaanites, Zidon being the eldest son of Canaan,

Genesis 10:15. See PHOENICIA, PHENICIA, or PHENICE.

Syro-phenician

Syrophoenicia