The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶266

I. A laudable regard for the honor of the first proselyte has countenanced the belief, the hope, the wish, that the Ebionites, or at least the Nazarenes, were distinguished only by their obstinate perseverance in the practice of the Mosaic rites.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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