Ebionite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ebionite	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Ebionite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ebionite adj of or relating to the Ebionites or their religion n 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 Synonym(s): Nazarene, Ebionite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ebionite \E"bionite\, n. [Heb. ebyon[c6]m poor people.] (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.