...religion was concerned (50). The truth, when feparated from the legendary and miraculous embellifliments with which it is adorned by thefe writers, feems to...Verulamium, fufFered martyrdom in that city, and was the firft Britiih martyr : that befides him, Aaron and. Julius, two citizens of Caerleon, and many others,...

...by Monks, a fet of men who could not abftain from the marvellous, where religion was concerned *°. The truth, when feparated from the legendary and miraculous...a native of Verulamium, fuffered martyrdom in that citv, and was the firft BritHh martyr : that befides him, Aaron and Julius, two citizens of Caerleon,...

...circumftances are very unfatisfaclory; being given us by Monks, a fet of men who could not abftain from the marvellous, where religion was concerned...Verulamium, fuffered martyrdom in that city, and was the firft Britifh martyr: that befides him, Aaron and Julius, two citizens of Caerleon, and many others,...

...British Christians were numerous, and that a regular hierarchy had. been established in the Church. Some time near the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the Christians in the Koman Province of Britain were persecuted for their religion, and St Alban, a native...

...ended. During the latter part of the persecution carried on against the Christians by Dioclesiau about the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the cathedral and monastery attributed to Lucius, are said to have been levelled with the ground, and all...

...miraculous embellishments with which it is adorned by these writers, seems to be (his:— that some time near the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the Christians in this country were persecuted for their religion—that in this persecution Albanus, a...

...tell us that the law and the prophets were read in Africa before the epistles and gospels c . Towards the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the author of the Apostolic Constitutions represents the liturgy of the eastern church as beginning with...

...almost total abandonment of the original interpretation of the Apocalyse.' — Pp. 16, 17. 2. About the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the figurative or allegorical interpretation came into general favour among the writers on the prophecies....

...to think that the Liturgy of the Apostolical Constitutions, which was the first, was written before the end of the third •or beginning of the fourth century. The explanation which is given of this startling and, at first sight, incredible fact, is, that from the...

...these Epistles they are addressed .by the bishops with singular affection and friendship ; ' but by the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century (the date of the Epistles, according to Daille), the deacons had become of comparatively little account....