capital of Syria obtained an easy and general reception throughout the province*. A correspondence between our Saviour himself and Abgarus, a prince of Edessa in Mesopotamia, is published at the end of the first book of Eusebius, as copied from the public records of the city. The genuineness of the correspondence has long ceased to find any advocate, and this is probably among the earliest of the many pious frauds which have disgraced the history of the Church: but the existence of the forged record
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