Sentence:  We need not assume that the famous village was considered the capital of the country spoken of; it is sufficient to know that the priests who <WSD>freshed</WSD> up the old Ta-ts'in lore in China, were proud of having been themselves born in the Holy Land; and if we consider the precedent set in the very "T'ang-shu", where the whole of India is designated by the name of Buddha's birth place, Magadha, we need not be astonished to see the name of what they must have considered the spiritual capital of the Christian world applied to the country they came from. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To update.