A History of the Corruptions of Christianity
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Twen- ty years after he made another law, to forbid deaconesses to give or bequeath their effects to the clergy, or the monks, or to make the churches their heirs ; but Theodosius re- voked that edict. We may form some idea of the riches of the church of Rome towards the middle of the third cen* tury, from this circumstance, that in that time, according to Eusebius, it maintained one thousand five hundred persons, widows, orphans and poor ; and it had then forty-six priests, besides the bishop ...and other officers.
S E C T I N 1 1 .
THE HISTORY OF CHURCH REVENUES AFTER THE FALL OP THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
Upon the invasion of the Roman empire by the Normaa nations, both the ecclesiastical laws and revenues under- went a great alteration, and upon the whole very favorable to the church, as a political system, though for some time, and in some cases, it was unfavorable to the clergy.
About this time, however, began the custom of granting estates to ecclesiastical persons in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as they had been granted to laymen ; the ecclesiastics swearing fealty and allegiance for them, and rendering the same services that the lay lords rendered for their estates.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Twen- ty years after he made another law, to forbid deaconesses to give or bequeath their effects to the clergy, or the monks, or to make the churches their heirs ; but Theodosius re- voked that edict. We may form some idea of the riches of the church of Rome towards the middle of the third cen* tury, from this circumstance, that in that time, according to Eusebius, it maintained one thousand five hundred persons, widows, orphans and poor ; and it had then forty-six priests, besides the bishop ...and other officers.
S E C T I N 1 1 .
THE HISTORY OF CHURCH REVENUES AFTER THE FALL OP THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
Upon the invasion of the Roman empire by the Normaa nations, both the ecclesiastical laws and revenues under- went a great alteration, and upon the whole very favorable to the church, as a political system, though for some time, and in some cases, it was unfavorable to the clergy.
About this time, however, began the custom of granting estates to ecclesiastical persons in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as they had been granted to laymen ; the ecclesiastics swearing fealty and allegiance for them, and rendering the same services that the lay lords rendered for their estates.
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