Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

odies through the centuries were kept free from
the accumulating beliefs and practices of Rome
which later were rejected by the Reformation. It is
true that in spite of the comparative purity of the
apostolic faith which they maintained during the
supremacy of the papacy, they gave way at times to
some papal or heathen practice.
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, in commenting on the
controversy over the two natures of Christ, writes:
“It is very difficult to find out exactly what
Nestorius thought and said about them, because we
have only the statement of his enemies to judge
by.”[38] The interference of the state in religion
had put things on a tension among the Jacobites.
Great masses of believers were bitter over the
situation into which state-dictated religion had
forced them. They were ready for a leader when
Jacob Baradai appeared, and he imparted to them
an enthusiastic organization which has persisted to
this day. The cause of the Jacobites, and even that
of dissenters in other lands, was made strong by the
hands of Jacob Baradai.
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