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Definition of Ebionite
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Ebionites or their religion.
2. Noun. A member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome.
Definition of Ebionite
1. n. One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.
Definition of Ebionite
1. Noun. A member of the Ebionites, an early Jewish Christian sect that lived in and around Judea and Palestine from the 1st to the 4th century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Ebionite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Age of Christianity and the Church by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1906)
"St. Clement, therefore, was the right man for the Ebionite or Gnostic Judaising
party to choose (after St. James) for their hero and founder, ..."
2. A history of Christian doctrine by William Greenough T. Shedd (1865)
"This preparatory statement will now enable us to understand the nature of the
objections urged by the Ebionite against the faith of the Church, ..."
3. A History of Christian Doctrine by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1863)
"Ebionite Skepticism, and Christian replies. ... The Ebionite, judging from the
somewhat conflicting statements of the early fathers, was the apostate ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"And taken is Aristobulus, in whom gift Of tongues ; and Barnaby maker of sweet
lauds, The Ebionite. The rest their hands then laid, On these : sith devout ..."
5. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"... the fourth the translation of Symmachus, the fifth the translation of the
Septuagint, and the sixth the translation of Theodotion the Ebionite. ..."
6. History of the Christian Church to the Reformation by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1860)
"In the system embodied in the Pseudo-Clementines, this Ebionite Gnosis was extended
and developed. It now assumed an attitude of direct antagonism to ..."
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