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abbreviation

  1. ecclesiastic(al)

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Montfaucon has also devoted two essays to the moral condition of the Eastern world, one of which is given in Jortin's Remarks on Ecclesiastical History.326.See on these abuses Mosheim, Eccl.

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See Tillemont, Mém. pour servir à l'Hist. eccl. tome iii. p.

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I am also indebted, in this part of my subject, to Dean Milman's histories, Neander's Ecclesiastical History, and Private Life of the Early Christians, and to Migne's Encyclopédie.170.See the famous epistle of Julian to Arsacius, where he declares that it is shameful that “the Galileans” should support not only their own, but also the heathen poor; and also the comments of Sozomen, Hist. eccl. v.

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Mém. pour servir à l'Hist. eccl. tome viii. p.

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On the question of the baptism of heretics see Smith and Cheetham’s Dict. of Eccl.

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