There is no such word as Calvary in the S. Scriptures. It is a translation into English of the word Calvaria, in the Latin translation called the Vulgate. "Mount Calvary" is therefore not a scriptural expression. Indeed the conjecture that the place of the crucifixion was a mount is not borne out by express Scripture; although there is reason to infer that it was an elevated place either by nature or art from the word Golgotha in the Hebrew, or Kranion in the Greek (both signifying a skull), because skull-like in its form-not because there were skulls there. If you have ever seen the ruins of a feudal castle of the olden time, you may have noticed that, right in front of its windows, and about a mile away, there was a mound, generally an artificial one, on which, in these times, the gallows tree was erected for the execution of criminals; and, from Pilate's house, along the via dolorosa, the Lord was led to Golgotha where that way terminated at the place of execution about a mile off, outside the city of Jerusalem. Our Lord, "that He might sanctify the people with His own blood suffered without the gate."