whole population may thus have been increased, their actual numbers could not fail to be somewhat diminished, since they could not wholly withdraw themselves from a tempest directed indiscriminately against the whole nation. During the next sixty years we read little respecting the Church of Jerusalem, except the names of fifteen successive presidents, called “Bishops of the Circumcision of these fourteen only belong to the period in question, since they begin with James; and they terminate at the
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