more recent foundation, prove the continued progress of the faith in those regions, even after the last of the apostles had been removed. The date of the foundation of the five Churches, not established by St. Paul, is not ascertained. But they appear to have been governed by their several bishops at a very early period. Nevertheless, they regarded Ephesus as their head—partly as the metropolis of Proconsular Asia; partly, as having received the faith from the lips of an Apostle. At the end of the
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