Definitions
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- noun historical One of an ancient
religious sect that attempted tounite thedoctrines ofChrist with the opinions of theJews andGnostics .
Etymologies
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Cerinthus + -ian, named after its Jewish founder, Cerinthus.
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Examples
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Pseudo-Clementines, the product of Cerinthian and Ebionite circles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Cerinthian heretics, their perversion of Scripture, [235] 244.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Ebionite recension of St. Matthew: a Cerinthian exhibition of St. Mark:
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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