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• But this is still not what is meant by “the Church of the East”. Let’s illustrate this by looking again at a map of the world.
• If we draw a vertical line through Israel, we will call everything west of Israel ‘the west’. And we will call everything east of Israel ‘the east’.
• What we call ‘the west’ consists of the territory largely included in the Roman Empire. This includes all the territory included in Paul’s missionary journeys as he spread Christianity west through Asia Minor and further onwards into Europe, as far as Greece and ultimately to Rome itself, when Paul appealed unto Caesar.