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L. VIVES.
HIerusalem. (a) that is.] Hierome saith it was first called Iebus: then, Salem: thirdly Hie∣rusalem, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aelia. Salem, is peace: as the Apostle saith vnto the Hebrewes: Hie∣rusalem * 1.1 the vision of peace. This was that Salem wherein Melchisedech raigned. Ioseph and Hegesip. It was called Aelia, of Aelius Adrian the emperor that repayred it after the destructi∣on by Titus, in emulation of his auncestors glory. The Gentiles called it both Solymae, Solymi, and Hierusalem. Some draw that Solymi, from the Pisidians in Lycia, called of old, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 some from the Solymi, a people of Pontus in Asia, who perished (as Eratosthenes writeth) with the Peleges and Bebricians, Eupolemus (as Eusebius saith) deriued the name Solymi, from Salomon, quasi 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Salomons temple, and some thinke Homer called it so: but Iosephus (lib. 7.) saith it was called Solyma in Abrahams time, And when Dauid had built a tower in it (the Iebuzites hauing taken it before) and fortified it, it was named Hierosolyma, for the Hebrewes call a fortification Hieron, but it was rather called Iebus after it was called Salem, then before, for it is held that Melchisedech built it, and he called it Salem. And the Canaa∣nites, whose King he was, dwelt therein: and he was otherwise called the iust King (saith Hegesippus:) for so was he named after his father, yet Hierome (De loc. Hebraic, & ad Damas.) saith that Salem was not Hierusalem, but another Citty in the country of Sychem (a part of Chanaan) where the ruines of Melchisedechs palace are yet to be seene, as the memories of a most ancient and magnificent structure. I omit to relate whence Strabo deriueth the originall of Hierusalem, out of Moyses: for Strabo was neuer in Chanaan. I omit those also that say that Hierusalem was Luz, and Bethel, Bethel, being a village long after it, as I said before.