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- noun Plural form of
Marcosian .
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Created things made after the image of invisible things, according to the Marcosians, not a shadow of the Pleroma, [638] 368 not images of AEons within the Pleroma, [639] 366
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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-- The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, with passages of the Gospels which they pervert.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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[2821] Grabe is of opinion that reference is made in this term to an imprecatory formula in use among the Marcosians, analogous to the form of thanksgiving employed night and morning by the Jews for their redemption from Egypt.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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-- The theory of the Marcosians, that created things were made after the image of things invisible.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Jewish Christians; the Marcosians had their version of St. Luke, the
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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Marcosians, but Hippolytus asserts that they did so without reason.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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A system not unlike that of the Marcosians was worked out by Monoimus the Arabian, to whom Hippolytus devotes chapters 5 to 8 of Book VIII, and who is mentioned only by Theodoret besides him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The Marcosians went so far as to reject Christian baptism and to substitute a mixture of oil and water which they poured over the head of the candidate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Irenaeus constantly opposes church tradition or the rule of faith, to these dreamers (II, xvi, against the Marcosians; II, xxvii, xxviii, against Valentinus).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The Marcosians said: "In [eis] the name of the unknown Father of all, in [eis] the Truth, the Mother of all, in him, who came down on Jesus [eis ton katelthonta eis Iesoun]".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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