...edition of Minutius Felix, STO. Cant. 1112. This writer was also termed Comntodiamts Ga~ xteus. He lived about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century. His work is composed in a sort of verse destitute of measure and cadence ; each line however comprizes...

...vernacular dialect of Egyptian. Hence he thinks it probable that thei Basmuric version was made in the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century ; at which time, according to Miinter,1 the other Egyptian versions were made. But in what follows, there seems...

...divers countries of France and Germany, suffered martyrdom, at last, at a place called Curiac 30 ." The dynasty of Lucius is stated to have terminated...ground, and all the ecclesiastics either slaughtered or dispersed 31 . The glory of quelling the persecution in this island is ascribed to Constantius Chlorus;...

...style, the form of the letters, and the Christian phrase of quiescant in pace, to have been written about the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century,) I here subjoin that which he argues with much ingenuity and plausibility, was intended to be the reading...

...province and government therein, are furnished in the Lives written by those Authors who flourished about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, and compose the Historic Auffustce Scriptores, or writers of the Augustan History. Of these, Spartianus...

...have ended. During the latter part of the persecution carried on against the Christians by Dioclesiau about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the cathedral and monastery attributed to Lucius, are said to have been levelled with the ground, and...

...author of the Apostolical Constitutions, who is admitted by the most learned critics to have lived about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, concurs with Justin in representing the reading of scripture as the commencement of the liturgy or...

...century any assembly of the church for the purpose of public morning worship is uncertain. However, about the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century there was public worship at this hour, as we learn from the ' Apostolical Constitutions,' where we...

...century any assembly of the church for the purpose of public morning worship is uncertain. However, about the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century there was public worship at this hour, as we learn from the 'Apostolical Constitutions,' where we have...

...is visible in the morning office of the Apostolical Constitutions, which were written in the east, about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century". Secondly, we may consider the litany as a distinct service, said after the morning prayer : and in...