elcesaites造句

• Hippolytus concludes his review of the Elcesaites in " Refutations"
• He then attacks the Elcesaites, who he says had a different baptismal practice than that of orthodox Christians.
• Nevertheless, considerable controversy continues as to whether the Thomas or Thom referred to could be the Elkasaites ( = Elcesaites ).
• Even the so-called Judaeo-Christian Gnostics ( Cerinthus ), the Ebionites ( Essenian ) sect of the Pseudo-Clementine writings ( the Elcesaites ), take up an inconsistent attitude towards Jewish antiquity and the Old Testament.
• The " Primal Man " of the Elcesaites, was also, according to the conception of these Jewish Gnostics, of huge dimensions; viz ., ninety-six miles in height and ninety-four miles in breadth; being originally androgynous, and then cleft in two, the masculine part becoming the Messiah, and the feminine part the Holy Ghost.
• Epiphanius mentions as Elkesai's brother a man called Jekseos ( I????? in H鎟eses, xix . 1 ), and explains the brother's name as being derived from the Hebrew for " hidden power " and Elkesai as " the hidden God . " Epiphanius records that the saints of the Elcesaites were two women; Martha ( " mistress " ) and Marthana ( " our mistress " ).