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|txtha=([[καθολικός]]) καθολικη, καθολικον ([[καθόλου]], [[which]] [[see]]), [[general]], [[universal]] ([[occasionally]] in [[secular]] authors from ([[Aristotle]], and) [[Polybius]] down, as καθολικη καί [[κοινῇ]] [[ἱστορία]], [[Polybius]] 8,4, 11; [[often]] in ecclesiastical writings; the [[title]] ἡ καθολικη [[ἐκκλησία]] [[first]] in Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 8 [ET] and [[often]] in Polycarp, Martyr. ([[see]] edition (Gebh. Harn.) Zahn, p. 133note); cf. [[καθολικη]] [[ἀνάστασις]] (Justin contra Trypho, 81under the [[end]]); Theophilus ad Autol. (l. i. § 13), p. 40, Otto edition); ἐπιστολαί καθολικαι, or [[simply]] καθολικαι, in the [[title]] of the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude (R G L; cf. τῶν [[ἑπτά]] λεγομένων καθολικων SC. ἐπιστολῶν, Eus. h. e. 2,23, 25), [[most]] [[probably]] [[because]] [[they]] seemed to be written [[not]] to [[any]] [[one]] [[church]] [[alone]], [[but]] to [[all]] the churches. (Cf. Dict. of Chris. Antiq. [[under]] the [[word]] Catholic.)