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16 on his journey to India, he preached to divers nations; the Parthians, Carmanians, Bactrianians, Margües, and Indians."— tom. iv. p. 33.

"Thomas was not only apostle of the Syrians and Chaldeans, but also of the Parthians, Medes, and Indians."

"Thomas, the apostle, preached the gospel of the Lord in Parthia, Media, Persia, Carmania, Hyrcania, Bactria, and Margæ."

"India, and all the regions round about, received the priesthood from Thomas, who presided and ministered in a church which he built there."

With this apostle tradition associates, in some portions of his labours, Bartholomew, or Nathanæl Eb'n Tolmai, and Jude, or Thaddeus.

"The regions of Sind and India, and adjacent parts of the East, as far as the Indian ocean, became Christian by the preaching of the apostle Thomas, one of the twelve. With him joined afterwards Jude, the son of James, also of the twelve."

"The fifth seat is Babylon, in honour of the three constituted apostles,—Thomas, the apostle of the Hindoos and Chinese; Bartholomew, who also is Nathanæl, of the Syrians; and Adæus, one of the Seventy, who was master to Agæus and Mares, the apostle of Mesopotamia and all Persia. Jude, the son of James, was one of the