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  • adjective Relating to the Ebionites.

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Ebionite +‎ -ic

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  • Ebionitic conceptions, such as that of the female nature of the Holy Spirit, were of course least likely to convince the Church Fathers.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • II.p. 157 ff.), has propounded the hypothesis that the Homilies are an Ebionitic revision of an older Catholic original (see p. 1841: "The Homilies as we have it, is a recast of an orthodox work by a highly unorthodox editor."

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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