FOUNTAIN of Nazareth. See NAZARETH. And in like manner of others.
The Ethiopian’s FOUNTAIN, is that, where the Ethiopian Queen Candace’s Eunuch Acts viii. 36.was baptized by Philip the Deacon, as is said in the Acts. Some place it very near Bethlehem, and others near Bethsur: Eusebius, and the old relation of a journey to Jerusalem, at the foot of the Mountain, on which Bethsur is situated. Now Bethsur was twenty miles from Jerusalem, and very near Eleutheropolis. In St. Jerom’s time, the Eunuch’s Fountain springing out of the earth, immediately almost found a passage into it again. At present, these waters are received into a Bason, from whence they issue into a conduit, which conveys them about twenty paces from thence into a reservoir, and from this reservoir they Cant. iv. 15. See Doubdan, Breidenbach, Adrichom, &c.spread into the valley.