Ebionite

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(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

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Noun	1.	Ebionite - a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome Nazarene religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deity
Adj.	1.	Ebionite - of or relating to the Ebionites or their religion

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Ebionism Ebionitism heresy Nazarene religious person			[7] Some at least of the Ebionites, a group of Jewish Christians influential in the early Palestinian church in the first and second centuries, thought that Matthew had misread Isaiah 7:14 (see below), and that Jesus was conceived naturally. Away in a manger by Foster, Charles / Contemporary Review Matthew 19:24) Eusebius, a fourth century Christian historian, refers to an early Jewish-Christian sect known as the Ebionites (literally, the poor ones in Hebrew), so-named because of their state of voluntary poverty. Social welfare before the Elizabethan Poor Laws: the early Christian ... by Faherty, Vincent E. / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare They include Basilides the Gnostic, the school of Valentinus, Tatian the Assyrian, the egalitarian and ecstatic new prophecy of Montanism, Ebionites, Nazarenes, and the Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines. A companion to second-century Christian "heretics" by Reference & Research Book News			eaves spout Eaves swallow eaves trough eavesdrop eavesdropper eavesdropping EB Eban ebb Ebb and flow ebb away ebb down ebb off ebb out ebb tide ebbing Ebbinghaus ebbtide Ebbw Vale EBCDIC Ebenaceae Ebenales Eberhard Ebert Ebionism Ebionite Ebionitism EBIT EBITDA Ebla Eblaite Eblanin Eblis EbN Ebola Ebola fever Ebola hemorrhagic fever Ebola virus Ebola virus disease ebon Ebonics ebonise Ebonist ebonite ebonize ebony ebony family ebony spleenwort ebony tree Ebor. Eboracum			EBIA Ebiasaph EBIAT EBIAT EBIB Ebic EBICF EBICS EBid EBIDA EBIDL EBIDS EBIDT EBIDTA EBIF EBIFC EBII EBIL eBILL EBIM EBIO EBIOC Ebionim Ebionism Ebionism Ebionite Ebionites Ebionites Ebionitism Ebionitism EBIOS EBIP EBIQ EBIR EBIRE EBIRS EBIS EBIS EBISA EBISS Ebisu Festival EBIT EBIT EBIT EBIT EBIT EBIT Shareholder Value Added EBITA EBITD EBITD EBITDA EBITDA EBITDA EBITDA EBITDA Margin EBITDA/enterprise value ratio

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