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Translation:
Twenty-four miles from Jerusalem, near Hebron, is the spring in which Philip, the apostle and evangelist, baptized the eunuch of Queen Candace. And at the place called Terebinthus, where the three angels appeared to Abraham, is the Well of Abraham, and the two very splendid caves in which he lived. An altar has been erected there with a church in front of it. Not far off is the mountain to which Abraham escorted the angels on their way to Sodom.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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Summary:
Mention of the church at Terebinthus, presumably from a passage lost in the MS of It. Eg., as recorded in a guidebook compiled AD 1137.
According to Wilkinson, p. 188n4, the "two very splendid caves" of Abraham may be a confused rendering of the Double Cave of the Patriarchs at Hebron, perhaps due to "a violent abridgement of what Egeria wrote".