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Ebionite|ˈiːbɪənaɪt|
[ad. L. ebionita, f. Heb. ebyōn poor; see -ite. The original signification is prob. ‘one who is poor in spirit’.]
One of a body of Christians in the 1st c., who held that Jesus was a mere man, and that the Mosaic Law was binding upon Christians. In the 2nd c. they became a distinct sect. Also attrib.
1650Gell Serm. 11 Ebionites, who denied the Deitie of Christ. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 103 Ebionite hatred [was] still burning against St. Paul in the second century. 1882― Early Chr. II. 343.
Hence ˌEbioˈnitic a., pertaining to the Ebionites, or their doctrines; ˈEbioˌnitism = Ebionism.
1780N. Lardner Hist. Heretics i. 20 Epiphanius's Introduction to his Account of Ebionitism must be allowed to be a remarkable instance of harshness, not to say railing. 1833G. S. Faber Recapitulated Apostasy 18 The early Gnostic and Ebionitic Heresies. 1856Bagehot Coll. Works (1965) I. 388 Strange confused beliefs, Millenarianism, Gnosticism, Ebionitism, were accepted. 1882Schaff Relig. Encycl. 106 It..shows traces of Ebionitic origin. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 44 The so-called Ebionitism of St. James. |