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Ebionism
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Ebionism, Ebionitism
the beliefs of a Judaistic Christian Gnostic sect of the 2nd century, especially partial observation of Jewish law, rejection of St. Paul and gentile Christianity, acceptance of only one gospel (Matthew), and an early adoptionist Christology. — Ebionite, n. — Ebionitic, adj.
See also: Heresy


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[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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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