I. EMMAUS, a village, sixty furlongs, Luk. xxiv. 13.or two leagues and a half from Jerusalem, on the north side of it ; celebrated for what happened to two Disciples, who were going thither upon the day of our Saviour’s Resurrection. As they were in the way, Jesus Christ joined them in the form of a traveller, demonstrated to them from the Scriptures, that Jesus Christ was to suffer death, and rise again ; and when they were come to Emmaus, he making a shew as if he intended to go farther, they obliged him to abide with them ; and while they were at supper, they discovered him as he was breaking bread. One of these Disciples was called Cleopas, and the other Emmaus, according to1 St. Ambrose, and a very ancient Manuscript of Corbie, the various readings whereof we have set down at the end of our Comment on the New Testament. There were hot waters at Emmaus, which were very beneficial to the health of such as used them. There was a Church built there in the very place where Cleopas’s house stood, which Jesus Christ had honoured with his presence. Josephus says2, that Vespasian left eight hundred of his Soldiers in Judæa, to whom he gave the village of Emmaus for their habitation. He adds, that this village was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem ; wherein he agrees with St. Luke.
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