单词 | melchizedekian |
释义 | Melchizedekiann.adj. A. n. Chiefly Church History. A person holding heretical or gnostic beliefs which accord an unusual importance to the figure of Melchizedek; esp. a member of a sect founded around a.d. 210 by Theodotus the Banker, who taught that Melchizedek was a heavenly being superior to Christ. ΚΠ 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xv. cclxxxvi. 295 After these appear'd..Fond Alogists, and Melchisedekians. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 45 Some Chiliasts, and Lampetians, Some prove Melchizedecians, Cleobians, Florinians, And some prove Maximinians. 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. ii. iv. 383 His [sc. Theodotus's] Followers obtain'd the Name of Melchisedecians. 1722 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ I. 45 Melchisedechians, hereticks so called, because they maintain'd that Melchisedeck was a Divine power, and not a man; superior therefore to Christ, whose divinity they denied. One Theodotus, who lived in the reign of Severus, was the author of this sect. a1833 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XI. 158/1 Among the followers of Theodotus was another of the same name, a banker by profession, who is said to have founded a new Sect called Melchisedecians. They..entertained particular opinions on the subject of Melchisedec, whom they described as being not a human being, but a celestial Virtue or Power. 1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects (new ed.) 594/1 Epiphanius supposes that the Melchisedechians were an offshoot from the Theodotians; and Hippolytus and Theodoret state that they had their beginning from Theodotus the Banker. 1907 E. A. Wallis Budge Paradise of Fathers I. Table of Contents p. ix The History of the Melchisedekian. [p. 273 (heading) Of a certain Old Man who..said that Melchisedek was the Son of God.] B. adj. Chiefly Theology. Of or relating to Melchizedek, the sect of the Melchizedekians, or the order of priesthood which Melchizedek is taken to represent. ΚΠ 1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 77 This Melchisedecian right [is] also trivial and groundless, and both tithes and fees, if exacted.., unjust and scandalous. 1692 T. Beverley Concil. Disc. Dr. Crisp's Serm. 2 His Appearance with that Blood in Heaven, in his Melchisedecian Priesthood. 1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 294 Theodotus, called Trapezita, or the banker, was author of the Melchisedecian heresy. 1850 H. James Let. 12 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 60 True men are like Melchisedec without natural descent, and knowing no such accidents as brothers and sisters. Mr. William Emerson may be of the Melchisedecian order. 1901 C. Gore Body of Christ (1907) iv. §4. 257 When they [sc. Protestants] rejected the Tridentine doctrine of the Melchizedekian priesthood. 1960 R. Cox Paul who Writes 361 The Levitical priests received their priesthood by descent... Melchisedech stands alone, like our Lord; his priesthood is from God. That fact demonstrates the essential difference between Melchisedechian and Levitical priesthood. 1995 P. Balla (title) The Melchizedekian Priesthood. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1648 |
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