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RELIGION 61
the monotheism of the Jews with a ready hearing. The motif of a divine
trinity was familiar in this region of the ancient East, and the hope in life
after death was, as we have seen, widespread at Edessa. The idea of a human-
divine mediator won an immediate response. In this environment Chris-
tianity could not fail to appeal.
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