Note (3) — 56.—How long ago it is since Machmet lived.

(3.) “it is the Schurian and not the Greek tongue”.—This Jacob, surnamed Baradæus, or Zanzalus, died as bishop of Edessa in 588, leaving his sect in the most flourishing condition; it forms the Syrian church in Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, and other parts. His followers, known as Jacobites, believe that in the Saviour of the World, both natures are united in one, and herein lies the principal difference from the Greek Church. Although their vernacular is the Arabic, the Syrian Christians employ the Syrian language in public worship (Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History, etc., i, 154; Gardner, The Faiths of the World, etc., ii, 194).—Ed.