Footnote

a Origines Ecclesiasticae was published by Joseph Bingham in eight volumes, the first in 1708 and the last in 1722. “This great work is a perfect repertory of facts in ecclesiastical archaeology and has not been superseded or even approached in its own line by any book since published.”—McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia, Volume I, page 814, column 2. (1891 edition)