escaped only into the hotter torments of hell!"

The overthrow and punishment of Nestor, however, by no means
destroyed his opinions. He and his followers, insisting on the
plain inference of the last verse of the first chapter of St.
Matthew, together with the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth verses of
the thirteenth of the same gospel, could never be brought to an
acknowledgment of the perpetual virginity of the new queen of
heaven. Their philosophical tendencies were soon indicated by
their actions. While their leader was tormented in an African
oasis, many of them emigrated to the Euphrates, and established
the Chaldean Church. Under their auspices the college of Edessa
was founded. From the college of Nisibis issued those doctors who
spread Nestor's tenets through Syria, Arabia, India, Tartary,
China, Egypt. The Nestorians, of course, adopted the philosophy
of Aristotle, and translated the works of that great writer into
Syriac and Persian. They also made similar translations of later
works, such as those of Pliny. In connection with the Jews they
founded the medical college of Djondesabour. Their missionaries
disseminated the Nestorian form of Christianity to such an extent
over Asia, that its worshipers eventually outnumbered all the
European Christians of the Greek and Roman Churches combined. It
may be particularly remarked that in Arabia they had a bishop.

THE PERSIAN CAMPAIGN. The dissensions between Constantinople and
Alexandria had thus filled all Western Asia with sectaries,
ferocious in their contests with each other, and many of them
burning with hatred against the imperial power for the
persecutions it had inflicted on them. A religious revolution,
the consequences of which are felt in our own times, was the