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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

St John Phocas, tr. Stewart, 1889

Chapter 21

On the right-hand side of the double mountain of which I have spoken lies the side of the Dead Sea, and beyond it Segor. There, beyond this desert, the great desert of Ruba may be seen after one has passed between the two monasteries, I mean that of St. Euthymius and that of the Laura. On the left of the mountains and of the road may be seen the hill whereon the Saviour, after his forty days’ fast, underwent the two temptations by the Tempter, who retired conquered and covered with shame; and opposite to this hill, at a distance, I should say, of six miles, there is a hill with a church upon it, whereon the Archangel Michael conferred with Joshua, the son of Nun.

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