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Elusa

Disambiguation; For the company, see Electronics Line USA

Electronics Line USA

Electronics Line USA is an autonomously operated subsidiary of Electronics Line 3000 . The company is located in Boulder, Colorado and has been in business for over twenty years as a manufacturer and distributor of security and video solutions....
. For the Gaul

Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
ish bishopric

Bishopric

Bishopric may refer to*Diocese an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches....
, see Eauze

Eauze

Eauze is a Communes of France in the Gers Departments of France in southwestern France....
. For the moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
, see Elusa (moth).

Elusa is a Roman Catholic titular see
Titular see

A titular see in the Roman Catholic Church is a Diocese or Archdiocese that now exists in title only. Until 1882, such titular sees, were distinguished by the Latin phrase in partibus infidelium or more often simply in partibus....
in the former Roman Province
Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italia ....
of Palaestina Tertia, suffragan of the archbishopric of Petra.

This Ancient city is called Chellous in the Greek text of Judith, i, 9. It is also mentioned by Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
, V, xv, 10 (in Idumaea), Peutinger's "Table", Stephanus Byzantius (as being formerly in Arabia, now in Palaestina Tertia), St.

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Disambiguation; For the company, see Electronics Line USA
Electronics Line USA

Electronics Line USA is an autonomously operated subsidiary of Electronics Line 3000 . The company is located in Boulder, Colorado and has been in business for over twenty years as a manufacturer and distributor of security and video solutions....
. For the Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
ish bishopric
Bishopric

Bishopric may refer to*Diocese an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches....
, see Eauze
Eauze

Eauze is a Communes of France in the Gers Departments of France in southwestern France....
. For the moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
, see Elusa (moth).

Elusa is a Roman Catholic titular see
Titular see

A titular see in the Roman Catholic Church is a Diocese or Archdiocese that now exists in title only. Until 1882, such titular sees, were distinguished by the Latin phrase in partibus infidelium or more often simply in partibus....
in the former Roman Province
Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italia ....
of Palaestina Tertia, suffragan of the archbishopric of Petra.

This Ancient city is called Chellous in the Greek text of Judith, i, 9. It is also mentioned by Ptolemy
Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
, V, xv, 10 (in Idumaea), Peutinger's "Table", Stephanus Byzantius (as being formerly in Arabia, now in Palaestina Tertia), St. Jerome (In Isaiam, V, xv, 4), the pilgrim Theodosius, Antoninus of Piacenza
Antoninus of Piacenza

The sixth-century pilgrim Antoninus of Piacenza who described the holy places of Jerusalem in the 570s AD is confused often with Saint Antoninus of Piacenza, who is venerated as a saint and martyr in the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of 13 November in the Ambrosian calendar....
, and Joannes Moschus
Joannes Moschus

Johannes Moschus was a Syrian monk and ascetical writer....
(Ptatum Spirituale, clxiv).

In the fourth century, as is to be learned from St. Jerome's life of St. Hilarion, there was at Elusa a great temple of Aphrodite
Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
; the saint seems to have introduced Christianity there ("Vita Sancti Hilarionis", 25, in Patrologia Latina
Patrologia Latina

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865....
, XXIII, col.41).

Early in the following century a Bishop of Elusa after redeeming the son of St. Nilus, who had been carried off from Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai , also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gebel Musa or Jabal Musa by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula....
by the Arabs, ordained both him and his father (P.G. LXXIX, 373-93). Other bishops known are Theodulus, 431; Aretas, 451; Peter, 518; and Zenobius, 536 (Lequien, Oriens Christianus III, 735).

Today the ruins of the city are seen at al-Khalasa
Al-Khalasa

Al-Khalasa was a Palestinian people village, located 23 kilometers southwest of the city of Beersheba. The village was originally founded by the Nabateans under the name of "al-Khalus", and then "Elusa" under the Byzantines where it served an administrative center in the Negev Desert....
(Khalasah), about nineteen miles south of Bersabee(*), in a large plain belonging to nomad tribes. Many inscriptions have been found there (Revue Biblique, 1905, 246-48, 253-55). In the vicinity, according to the Targums, was the desert of Sur with the well at which the angel found Agar
Agar

Agar or agar agar is a gelatinous substance derived from seaweed. Historically and in a modern context, it is chiefly used as an ingredient in desserts throughout Japan, but in the past century has found extensive use as a solid substrate to contain Growth medium for microbiology work....
(Genesis 16:7). (See Revue Biblique, 1906, 597).

(*) Google Earth shows Elusa to be about nineteen kilometers southwest of Beersheba, at 31:05:49N 34:39:17E.

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