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Chapter II. The Literary Triumph of Christianity Over Greek and Roman Heathenism

Chapter V

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THE HIERARCHY AND POLITY OF THE CHURCH.

Comp. in part the literature in vol. i. § 105 and 110 (to which should be added now, P. A. de Lagarde: Constitutiones Apostolorum, Lips. and Lond., 1862); also Gibbon, ch. xx.; Milman: Hist. of Ancient Christianity, book iv. c. 1 (Amer. ed. p. 438 sqq.), and the corresponding sections in Bingham, Schroeckh, Plank, Neander, Gieseler, Baur, etc. (see the particular literature below).

Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, AD 311–600 (1884). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.