By Roderic L. Mullen
This quantity covers the geographical unfold of Christianity in its first 3 centuries. it really is prepared by means of continents - Asia, Europe and Africa - to teach the slow improvement of Christian groups all the way down to the Council of Nicaea in 325. the realm surveyed stretches from Wales to the borders of India, and from the Northern coasts of the Black Sea to the plains of Morocco. the result's an image not just of the outward improvement of early Christianity yet of the diversity that existed inside of it besides.
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Khoba. 2, distinguishes two villages of this name near Damascus. The one to the North of Damascus was mentioned in Genesis 14:15. At the other village of the same 37 name to the Southwest of Damascus, Eusebius knew of the presence of Jewish Christians (specifically Ebionites). Possibly a duplicate of Kochaba, although Bauckham, 63–64, thinks they are distinct from each other and from the Kochaba in Palestine. Compare Atlas, 5, which opts for the site just North of Damascus as the Ebionite site.
2–3, reports a pagan temple at Aphaca being destroyed in the time of Constantine. Further general information may be gleaned from DHGE, 3:1158–1339. Specific Sites Alassos. ) Bishop Thadoneus was at the Council of Nicaea; see Gelzer, lxi. Berytus. 2–3, records that a certain Apphianus was martyred under Maximinus. 1–6, notes that Arius counted Bishop Gregorius as a potential supporter before the Council of Nicaea. In fact, Gregorius became one of the orthodox signatories at Nicaea; see Gelzer, lxi.
E. ” ’Ibn-Ishaq, text 972, trans. 653, also knows the tradition linking Bartholomew with Arabia. 305, but this seems to be dependent on a statement of Socrates with respect to the church in Caucasian Iberia; see Nau, “Étude,” 55. Trimingham, 293, correctly says that the accounts of Theophilus show no early evidence of work among indigenous Christians in South Arabia. Instead it appears likely that the work of Theophilus concentrated on providing for the needs of Christian traders. DHGE, 3:1233–1253.