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 result.

It affected the whole world.
We shall gain a clear view of this great event, if we consider separately the two acts into which it may be decomposed: 1.