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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • II, xiii) calls the Simonians the most immoral and depraved of mankind.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • 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

  • 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.

    Catholic Social Thought: Europe 2008

  • The Simonians were condemned who admitted the purgation of souls — Psuken

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • But the Simonians and the Origenists had taken their purgatory from Virgil, Plato and the Egyptians.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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