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(Joh_5:2). The word “market” is an interpolation of our translators, possibly after Luther who has Schafhaus. The words of the original are ἐðὶ ôῇ ðñïâáôéêῇ , to which should probably be supplied not market, but gate ( ðõëῇ ), as in the Sept. version of the passages in Nehemiah quoted in the foregoing article (q.v.). The Vulgate connects the ðñïâáôéêή with the êïëõìâήèñá and reads Probatica piscina; while the Syriac omits all mention of the sheep and names only a place of baptism.