Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — [2110] Canticles ii. 16, 3
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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[2111] Acts xi. 26. "The word seems to have been in the first instance a nickname fastened by the heathen populace of Antioch on the followers of Christ, who still continued to style themselves the disciples' or the saints' or the brethren' or the believers,' and the like. The biting gibes of the Antiochene populace which stung to the quick successive emperors--Hadrian, M. Aurelius, Severus, Julian--would be little disposed to spare the helpless adherents of this new superstition.' Objection indeed has been taken to the Antiochene origin of the name on the ground that the termination i…
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