Note 508 — Chapter V · THE ORIENTATION OF CHURCHES
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I. McBurney and S. Neil, Cyclo. Univ. Hist., 1855, p. 101, give the date of the first Christian churches as A.D. 224. Cf. Dr J. H. Blunt and Sir W. G. F. Phillimore, Book of Church Law, 5th edition, 1888, pp. 309-10, and 309 n. (authorities given); A. Lamson, The Church of the First Three Centuries, ed. H. Ierson, 1875, p. 405 n.