Ebion

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Ebion

  1. The author of the Ebionite heresy.
    • 1812, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 160:
      Mr. Milner divides the earliest heretics into two classes—the Docetae and the Ebionites— though Bishop Horsley has shown it to be more than doubtful whether Ebion was born in the first century; and he compares the Docetae and Ebionites to the Arians and Socinians of modern times..
    • 1829, London Encyclopaedia:
      EBION, the author of the heresy of the Ebionites, was a disciple of Cerinthus and his successor.
    • 2007, Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Risto Uro, Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism, page 221:
      There he attacks Ebion, the supposed leader of a Jewish-Christian “heresy” of the Ebionites: But he is making a completely false accusation—this dreadful serpent with his poverty of understanding.

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