Ebionize

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verb

To believe in or expound upon the Ebionite heresy.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbEbionize (third-person singular simple present Ebionizes, present participle Ebionizing, simple past and past participle Ebionized)

present singular third person Ebionizes · participle present Ebionizing · participle past Ebionized · past Ebionized · alternative Ebionise

  1. To believe in or expound upon the Ebionite heresy.

    These writers unanimously attribute to him an Ebionizing Christology; and to this must be added as a further sign his strong chiliasm […]

    1877, Johannes Friedrich Bleek, translated by William Urwick, Introduction to the New Testament, volume 2, page 26
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    When, therefore, St John came forward with the testimony of his Gospel to oppose the Ebionizing and Gnostic fundamental principle of all heresy, and at the same time externally and internally supplemented the Synoptists, he was not influenced by a multiplicity of separate and independent aims.

    1860, Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, translated by W. B. Pope, Biblical Commentary on the Epistles of St. John […], page xxi

    Would you be willing to imitate all the examples of the old church? Or are you Ebionizing, and do you wish to return us to the Mosaic rule?

    2008 [1582], Dirck Coornhert, translated by Gerrit Voogt, Synod on the Freedom of Conscience […], →ISBN, page 197

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