...pastor would he entitled to preside. Another witness whom I shall adduce is Jerom, who wrete about the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth. The testimony which I shall bring from him, regards the practice that had long subsisted at Alexandria....

..." from blood," as a prohibition of homicide. These two things at least are extremely manifest; that at the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, many among the Latin Christians neglected the distinction of meats, and likewise understood that prohibition...

...of the barbarians have completely perished, and we are driven to conjecture what they were, lization elements of a widely different character : I speak...had formed itself into a corporate body. It had its government, a body of priests ; a settled ecclesiastical polity for the regulation of their different...

...different principles, animated by different sentiments, and which has brought into European civi 5 lization elements of a widely different character : I speak...had formed itself into a corporate body. It had its government, a body of priests ; a settled ecclesiastical polity for the regulation of their different...

...speak of the Christian Church. I say the Christian Church, and not Christianity, between which a hroad distinction is to be made. At the end of the fourth...had formed itself into a corporate body. It had its government, a body of priests ; a settled ecclesiastical polity for the regulation of their different...

...from blood," as a prohibition of homicide. These two things at least are extremely manifest ; that at the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifih, many among the Latin christians neglected the distinction of meats, and likewise understood...

...first, the system of municipal corporations, its habits, its regulations, its principle of liberty — a general civil legislation, common to all ; secondly,...had formed itself into a corporate body. It had its government, a body of priests; a settled ecclesiastical polity for the regulation of their different...

...pastor would be entitled to preside. Another witness whom I shall adduce is Jerome, who wrote about the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth. The testimony which I shall bring from him, regards the practice that had long subsisted at Alexandria....

...Phylacteries, which modern Jews use, were used in the time of our Lord ; for St. Jerome (who flourished in the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, and went to Jerusalem, for the purpose of acquiring a complete knowledge of the Hebrew, and also travelled...

...of a very different nature, founded upon different principles, animated by different sen» timents, and which has brought into European civilization elements...longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it hud formed itself into a corporate body. It had its 4 That the municipal spirit should have been stronger...