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the life of Constantine ; therefore the church of chap. 
IV. 
Sepphoris was erected before the middle of the 
fourth century. "There was," says he ^ "among 
them, one Josephus, not the antient writer and 
historian of that name, but a native of Tiberias 
contemporary with the late Emperor, Constantine 
the Elder, who obtained from that sovereigfn 
the rank of Count, and was empowered to build 
a church to Christ in Tiberias, and in Dioaesarea, 
and in Capernaum, and in other cities." 
The eera of its destruction may be referred to 
that of the city, in the middle of the fourth 
century, as mentioned by Reland'^, upon the 
(;3) 'H» Vi ris i^ ciutZii 'la(r>ivrai, ou^ o ffvyy^al^ovs, xai it;roptoy^u(p(>f, no.) 
iftlXcuis iKUvos, aXX' o utto Tijii^iuoo;, o \v ^^ovoi; roZ fiaxes^i'Tou KuvffTatrivou 
vou BaffiXiufccvTOSy tou yipovTos, o; xai -r^o; avrou tou fiaffiXiu; a^iuftetrot 
Ki/niru* 'Itu;^i kk) I'^ovirla.v i"X'/i(piv it Tn alrri, Tifii^taSi IxaXtKricet K^kftoi 
ii^Uffai, xeci h Aioxaio'a.oela xai h Ka^i^vaev/x, xat raT; aXXai;. " Fuit ex 
illorum numero Josephus quidam, non historia; illc scriptor antiquus, std 
Tiberiadensis alter, qui beatse memoriae Constantini Senioris Imperatoris 
JEtate vixit ; a quo etiam Comitivam accopit, cum ea potestate, ut turn in 
urbe ipsa Tiberiadis, turn Diocasareaa, Capharnaumi, ac vicinis aliis in 
oppidis.ecclesias in Christi honorem extrucret." Epiphanii Opera, Tar. 
1622. torn. II. lib. i. Adv. Her. 21. 128. 
(4) The reader, after a fruitless examination of the pages of yldri- 
cJiomius, and his predecessors, Breidenhach and Brocard, for an 
acount of this city, may find, in the Palestine of Reland, every infor- 
mation, concerning its history, that the most profound erudition, 
joined to matchless discrimination, diffidence, and judgment, could 
ielect and concentrate. It is the peculiar characteristic of Jieland's 
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