Note 4 — INTRODUCTION
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No better proof can be given of the change in public opinion in such matters than the comparison of Gibbon’s words with regard to “the miraculous powers ascribed to the primitive Church” (Decline and Fall, Bury’s edition, vol. II. p. 2) and the way the subject is treated in the article “Wonders” in Cheyne’s Encyclopedia Biblica, 1903.