Excerpt from Bishop Lightfoot and the Early Roman See

The reader of the following pages must not look for any general account or criticism of the massive volumes named at the head of this article, which have been styled by Bishop Lightfoot's fellow-worker for many years, and successor at Durham, "a monument of learning, sagacity, and judgment, unsurpassed in the present age."

The object in view is something much less ambitious.

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