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| That the Assembly was composed, as in the Acts of the Apostles, of Individuals from Various Nations.
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Chapter
VIII.—That the Assembly was composed,
as in the Acts of the Apostles, of Individuals from Various
Nations.
For it
is said3243
that in the Apostles’ age,
there were gathered “devout men from every nation under
heaven”; among whom were Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and
the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus and
Asia, in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and the parts of Libya about
Cyrene; and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and
Arabians. But that assembly was less, in that not all who composed it
were ministers of God; but in the present company, the number of
bishops exceeded two hundred and fifty,3244
| 3244 The number present is given variously as three hundred (Socrates),
three hundred and eighteen (Athanasius, &c.), two hundred and
seventy (Theodoret), or even two thousand (cf. Hefele). It has been
conjectured that the variation came from the omission of names of the
Arians (cf. note of Heinichen, Vol. 3, p. 506–507), or that it
varied during the two months and more. | while that of the presbyters and
deacons in their train, and the crowd of acolytes and other attendants
was altogether beyond computation.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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