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- noun Plural form of
Simonian .
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Church fathers writing in the first and second centuries frequently speak of a group of heretics called Simonians.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Church fathers writing in the first and second centuries frequently speak of a group of heretics called Simonians.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Church fathers writing in the first and second centuries frequently speak of a group of heretics called Simonians.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Church fathers writing in the first and second centuries frequently speak of a group of heretics called Simonians.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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In fine, they have a name derived from Simon, the author of these most impious doctrines, being called Simonians; and from them
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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II, xiii) calls the Simonians the most immoral and depraved of mankind.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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I had indeed partially learnt this view of things from the thoughts awakened in me by the speculations of the St. Simonians; but it was made a living principle pervading and animating the book by my wife's promptings.
Harriet Taylor Mill Miller, Dale E. 2009
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This fringe of the Catholic movement emerged from religious minded Saint-Simonians, some of the followers of Lamennais, and a number of the Polish emigrées who fled to France after the rebellion against Russia in 1830.
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The Simonians were condemned who admitted the purgation of souls — Psuken
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But the Simonians and the Origenists had taken their purgatory from Virgil, Plato and the Egyptians.
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