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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, Volumes I–IV is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this four-volume set, editors William Smith and Henry Wace provide a comprehensive collection of biographical material: more than 4,000 pages of articles and historical information on the early Christian church. An excellent resource for identifying significant people and events, this in-depth tome covers the first eight centuries of Christianity, picking up where Smith’s Bible Dictionary...

strong was the zeal for the Law of Moses among the Jewish converts to Christianity. Gradually the leading Apostles there, SS. Peter, James, and John, whose powers of restraint and conciliation cannot be over-estimated, passed away, or were withdrawn. The fall of Jerusalem (A.D. 70) took place, and the Church was formed at Pella under Symeon. The Jewish Christians were from the time of this visitation of God brought face to face with two leading facts. The first was that the temple being obliterated,
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