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The first volume of this set serves as a general introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Neale covers the geographical and national origins of the various Orthodox churches, the ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church, its liturgies and worship, the Church calendar, and various points of contention with the Western Church as a whole and the Roman Catholic Church in particular.

But the third in the Greek, which is on the canon of Scripture, where the Fathers of Bethlehem include the Apocrypha, and say that Cyril “senselessly, ignorantly, or perhaps maliciously,” called by that name, is omitted: and the first, “Whether the Holy Scripture is to be commonly read by all Christians,” is thus answered; GREEK. RUSSIAN. No: it is not. We know that all Scripture is divinely inspired and profitable, and is of such necessity that true religion without it could not be preserved. Nevertheless
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